Cooked?Boston restaurant health inspection closures and downgrades — September 21, 2026
Boston restaurant inspection changes first received by Cooked during the week ending 2026-09-20: 8 shutdowns, 12 downgrades. Official Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division records.
How to read this brief
8 shutdowns · 12 downgrades
These are meaningful inspection records Cooked first received between September 14, 2026 and September 20, 2026. The authority may have performed an inspection earlier and published it later, so every restaurant below carries the inspection’s actual date.
An inspection is a dated official record, not a guarantee about every meal before or after it.
Shut by the authority 🚫
Banyan Bar & Refuge
537 Tremont St · Boston 02116 · South End
Fail → closed by the health authority (mid → cooked) · inspection dated September 18, 2026
Status when this brief was published: closed by the authority.
0 critical violations · 1 total
Cgk Newbury
266 Newbury St · Boston 02116 · Back Bay
Pass → closed by the health authority (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 9, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 8 total
Lone Star Taco Bar
465 Cambridge St · Allston 02134 · Brighton
Pass → closed by the health authority (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 5, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 1 total
Lazuri Chicken N Pizza
487 Cambridge St · Allston 02134 · Brighton
Pass → closed by the health authority (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 5, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 1 total
Coffee Turco
483 Cambridge St · Allston 02134 · Brighton
Fail → closed by the health authority (mid → cooked) · inspection dated September 5, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 1 total
Turco Market
481 Cambridge St · Allston 02134 · Brighton
Fail → closed by the health authority (cooked → cooked) · inspection dated September 5, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 1 total
Fries Before Guys
485 Cambridge St · Allston 02134 · Brighton
Pass → closed by the health authority (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 5, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 1 total
Peking House
160 Dudley St · Roxbury 02119 · Roxbury
Fail → closed by the health authority (mid → cooked) · inspection dated September 3, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 6 total
Ratings moved down 📉
Corrib Pub
396 Market St · Brighton 02135 · Brighton
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 18, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 2 total
Esperia Grill & Rotisserie
344 Washington St · Brighton 02135 · Brighton
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 18, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 3 total
Shaking Seafood
19 Poplar St · Roslindale 02131 · Roslindale
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 18, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 5 total
Wei's Yunnan Rice Noodles
412 Market St · Brighton 02135 · Brighton
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 18, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 4 total
Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center
49 Harvard Wy · Boston 02163 · Allston
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 17, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 3 total
Smfa Cafe
230 Fenway · Boston 02115 · Longwood
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 17, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 1 total
Fresh Food Generation
191 Talbot Av · Dorchester 02124 · Mattapan
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 17, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 7 total
Cityside
1958 Beacon St · Brighton 02135
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 16, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 9 total
Bean & Leaf Cafe
239 Causeway St · Boston 02114 · North End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 16, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 2 total
Blank Street Coffee
120 Causeway St · Boston 02114 · West End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 16, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 5 total
Bon Sole Market
46 Blue Hill Av · Roxbury 02119 · Roxbury
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 16, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 1 total
Koko Coffee
226 Causeway St · Boston 02114 · North End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 16, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 3 total
Neighborhood and local-area movement 🗺️
These are places with at least two qualifying changes in the reporting period—not a claim that every restaurant in the area moved the same way.
Brighton
27 changes: 16 setbacks and 11 improvements
5 closures · 11 downgrades · 5 reopenings · 6 recoveries
Dorchester
28 changes: 14 setbacks and 14 improvements
0 closures · 14 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 14 recoveries
South End
18 changes: 11 setbacks and 7 improvements
1 closure · 10 downgrades · 1 reopening · 6 recoveries
Chinatown
19 changes: 10 setbacks and 9 improvements
0 closures · 10 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 9 recoveries
Roxbury
13 changes: 9 setbacks and 4 improvements
1 closure · 8 downgrades · 1 reopening · 3 recoveries
Affected chains and same-name locations 📍
Only name groups with at least three operating Boston locations and a qualifying change this period appear here. Counts describe each group’s current citywide record at publication; shared names do not always prove shared ownership.
Dunkin Donuts
85 clean · 9 mid · 4 cooked across 98 rated locations, plus 3 not rated.
6 qualifying changes this period · 101 operating locations tracked
Clay Pot Cafe
2 clean · 1 mid · 0 cooked across 3 rated locations.
3 qualifying changes this period · 3 operating locations tracked
Sweetgreen
12 clean · 0 mid · 0 cooked across 12 rated locations.
2 qualifying changes this period · 12 operating locations tracked
Sal's Pizza
5 clean · 0 mid · 1 cooked across 6 rated locations.
2 qualifying changes this period · 6 operating locations tracked
How Boston’s result works
clean = passed, cooked = failed on critical food-safety factors, mid = failed on minor stuff only.
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.
Corrections and updates
No corrections recorded. The facts above are the frozen publication snapshot; restaurant links show the current record.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division. Cooked preserves the authority’s grade and adds clean / mid / cooked only as a comparison layer. Read the methodology → · Browse explainers and stories →