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Villa Mexico Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 14, 2026
- address41 Broad St, Boston 02109
Is Villa Mexico Cafe clean?
Villa Mexico Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 14, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Villa Mexico Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 14, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • Hood sticker observed expired. Schedule cleaning appointment.Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • Hood sticker observed expired. Schedule cleaning appointment.
When was Villa Mexico Cafe last inspected?
Villa Mexico Cafe has 41 inspections on record going back to January 8, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 14, 2026 | Pass | |
| March 30, 2026 | Fail | |
| February 18, 2026 | — | |
| February 11, 2026 | Fail | |
| November 18, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 28, 2025 | — | |
| July 21, 2025 | — | |
| June 6, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 30, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 20, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 29, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 31, 2024 | — |
Villa Mexico Cafe vs Downtown
Downtown runs 89% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 851 clean, 49 mid, 61 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 11% of them.
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How Boston grades restaurants
Boston reports inspections as a pass or a fail, with no score and no letter. What separates a bad fail from a trivial one is the violation severity ladder: a single star is a minor issue, two stars is more serious, and three stars marks a critical foodborne-illness risk factor — temperature abuse, bad handwashing, cross-contamination. A restaurant can fail on paperwork alone, which is not the same as failing on food safety. Cooked splits Boston fails accordingly: a fail with a three-star violation reads cooked, a fail on minor items only reads mid.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated April 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.