Zhi Wei Cafe

• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 22, 2026 →
• address102 South St, Boston 02111

Is Zhi Wei Cafe clean?

Zhi Wei Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 22, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Zhi Wei Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Thawing (C)
• ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf)
• ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Using a Handwashing Sink-Operation and Maintenance (Pf)

When was Zhi Wei Cafe last inspected?

Zhi Wei Cafe has 15 inspections on record going back to June 2, 2023. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 2 of these 11 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Zhi Wei Cafe vs Leather District

Leather District runs 89% clean across 186 tracked restaurants — 152 clean, 10 mid, 9 cooked.

Against the 186 spots Cooked tracks in Leather District, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated October 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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