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Yawkey Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 28, 2026
- address850 Harrison Av, Roxbury 02118
Is Yawkey Cafe clean?
Yawkey Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 28, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Yawkey Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on May 28, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Yawkey Cafe last inspected?
Yawkey Cafe has 33 inspections on record going back to June 20, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 28, 2026 | Pass | |
| February 5, 2026 | Pass | |
| July 17, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 10, 2025 | Fail | |
| February 3, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 27, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 8, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 7, 2024 | Fail | |
| December 21, 2023 | Pass | |
| December 5, 2023 | Fail | |
| August 8, 2023 | Pass |
Yawkey Cafe vs South End
South End runs 81% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 498 clean, 63 mid, 54 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 May 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.