Cooked?Boston restaurant health inspection closure and downgrades — September 28, 2026
Boston restaurant inspection changes first received by Cooked during the week ending 2026-09-27: 1 shutdown, 19 downgrades. Official Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division records.
How to read this brief
1 shutdown · 19 downgrades
These are meaningful inspection records Cooked first received between September 21, 2026 and September 27, 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 🚫
Caffe Nero
1047 Commonwealth Av · Boston 02215 · Allston
Pass → closed by the health authority (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 20, 2026
Status when this brief was published: closed by the authority.
1 critical violation · 6 total
Ratings moved down 📉
Top Shelf Cookies
516 Gallivan Bl · Dorchester 02124 · Dorchester
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 23, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 1 total
Park 54 Restaurant And Lounge
81 Fairmount Av · Hyde Park 02136 · Hyde Park
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 22, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 6 total
Hippo Kitchen
241 Market St · Brighton 02135 · Brighton
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 22, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 2 total
Doughboy Donuts & Deli
220 Dorchester Av · South Boston 02127 · Chinatown
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 22, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 7 total
Emmanuel College (Muddy River Cafe)
400 Fenway · Boston 02115 · Longwood
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 21, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 9 total
Fairmont Copley Plaza
138 Saint James Av · Boston 02116 · Bay Village
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 21, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
3 critical violations · 16 total
M & M Bbq
1250 Massachusetts Av · Dorchester 02125 · Roxbury
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 21, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 2 total
Lobstah On A Roll
254 Newbury St · Boston 02116 · Back Bay
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 21, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 5 total
Esthetic Bean
16 Preble St · South Boston 02127 · South End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 21, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 4 total
Empire Restaurant
1 Marina Park Dr · Boston 02210
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 19, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 4 total
Audubon
838 Beacon St · Boston 02215 · Fenway
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 18, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 4 total
Underdog Hot Chicken
160 Brighton Av · Allston 02134 · Allston
Pass → Fail (clean → mid) · inspection dated September 24, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 5 total
Kozy Kitchen
728 Commonwealth Av · Boston 02215 · Fenway
Pass → Fail (clean → mid) · inspection dated September 24, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 8 total
First Watchno. 1180
777 Boylston St · Boston 02116 · Back Bay
Pass → Fail (clean → mid) · inspection dated September 24, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 4 total
Flat Black Coffee Co. Ltd.
1170 Washington St · Dorchester 02124 · Mattapan
Pass → Fail (clean → mid) · inspection dated September 23, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 2 total
My Thai Cafe Vegetarian & Bubble Tea Bristro
3 Beach St · Boston 02111 · Chinatown
Pass → Fail (clean → mid) · inspection dated September 23, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 5 total
Nakhon
296 Washington St · Brighton 02135 · Brighton
Pass → Fail (clean → mid) · inspection dated September 23, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 8 total
Pizza Stop
851 Harrison Av · Roxbury 02118 · South End
Pass → Fail (clean → mid) · inspection dated September 23, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 4 total
Vikos Pizza & Ribs
847 River St · Mattapan 02136 · Hyde Park
Pass → Fail (clean → mid) · inspection dated September 22, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 2 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
7 changes: 4 setbacks and 3 improvements
0 closures · 4 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 3 recoveries
East Boston
7 changes: 4 setbacks and 3 improvements
0 closures · 4 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 3 recoveries
Chinatown
7 changes: 3 setbacks and 4 improvements
0 closures · 3 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 4 recoveries
Back Bay
6 changes: 3 setbacks and 3 improvements
0 closures · 3 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 3 recoveries
Longwood
6 changes: 3 setbacks and 3 improvements
0 closures · 3 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 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.
Caffe Nero
15 clean · 2 mid · 1 cooked across 18 rated locations.
1 qualifying change this period · 18 operating locations tracked
Qdoba Mexican Eats
3 clean · 1 mid · 0 cooked across 4 rated locations.
1 qualifying change this period · 4 operating locations tracked
Lobstah On A Roll
1 clean · 0 mid · 1 cooked across 2 rated locations, plus 1 not rated.
1 qualifying change this period · 3 operating locations tracked
Pizza Stop
2 clean · 1 mid · 0 cooked across 3 rated locations.
1 qualifying change this period · 3 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 →