Cooked?Boston restaurant health inspection closures and downgrades — October 5, 2026
Boston restaurant inspection changes first received by Cooked during the week ending 2026-10-04: 4 shutdowns, 16 downgrades. Official Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division records.
How to read this brief
4 shutdowns · 16 downgrades
These are meaningful inspection records Cooked first received between September 28, 2026 and October 4, 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 🚫
The Olive Garden Italian Restaurant No. 1674
1118 Massachusetts Av · Dorchester 02125 · South End
Fail → closed by the health authority (cooked → cooked) · inspection dated October 2, 2026
Status when this brief was published: closed by the authority.
1 critical violation · 3 total
Sarva
279 Newbury St · Boston 02116 · Back Bay
Pass → closed by the health authority (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 2, 2026
Status when this brief was published: closed by the authority.
1 critical violation · 9 total
Spagnoulos
240 Hanover St · Boston 02113 · North End
Fail → closed by the health authority (mid → cooked) · inspection dated September 30, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 21 total
Hong Kong Eatery
79 Harrison Av · Boston 02111 · Chinatown
Pass → closed by the health authority (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 27, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 1 total
Ratings moved down 📉
Caffe Bene
333 Massachusetts Av · Boston 02115 · South End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 2, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 8 total
Scola's Cafe
88 Black Falcon Av · Boston 02210 · South Boston
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 1, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 5 total
St Botolph Club Inc
199 Commonwealth Av · Boston 02116 · Back Bay
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 1, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 3 total
149 Eat Street
300 Chelsea St · Charlestown/ 02129
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 1, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 2 total
Dunkin Donuts
1 Harbor St · South Boston 02127
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 1, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 3 total
Todo Rico Fast Food
50 Maverick Sq · East Boston 02128 · North End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 1, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 5 total
Mj Teriyaki
889 Dorchester Av · Dorchester 02125 · Roxbury
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 1, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 2 total
Pete's Dockside
12 Channel St · Boston 02210 · South Boston Waterfront
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 1, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 8 total
Hissho Sushi @ Mass Art-Kennedy Cafe
625 Huntington Av · Boston 02115 · Longwood
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 1, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 8 total
Renaissance Hotel (Employee Cafe)
606 Congress St · Boston 02210 · South Boston Waterfront
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 30, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 2 total
Que Arepa En Tertulias Cafe
26 Porter St · East Boston 02128 · East Boston
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 30, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 10 total
Douzo Japanese Restaurant
131 Dartmouth St · Boston 02116 · South End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 30, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 5 total
Frenchie
560 Tremont St · Roxbury 02118 · South End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 30, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 6 total
Poke By Love Art
97 Beverly St · Boston 02114 · North End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 30, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 3 total
Kelley's Sq. Pub
84 Bennington St · East Boston 02128 · East Boston
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 29, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 5 total
Pina's Grocery
1985 Columbus Av · Roxbury 02119 · Roxbury
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated September 29, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 4 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.
North End
28 changes: 11 setbacks and 17 improvements
1 closure · 10 downgrades · 1 reopening · 16 recoveries
South End
14 changes: 10 setbacks and 4 improvements
1 closure · 9 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 4 recoveries
South Boston Waterfront
12 changes: 9 setbacks and 3 improvements
0 closures · 9 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 3 recoveries
Back Bay
12 changes: 5 setbacks and 7 improvements
1 closure · 4 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 7 recoveries
Chinatown
12 changes: 5 setbacks and 7 improvements
1 closure · 4 downgrades · 1 reopening · 6 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
16 clean · 2 mid · 0 cooked across 18 rated locations.
3 qualifying changes this period · 18 operating locations tracked
Dunkin Donuts
88 clean · 6 mid · 4 cooked across 98 rated locations, plus 3 not rated.
3 qualifying changes this period · 101 operating locations tracked
Chipotle Mexican Grill
8 clean · 0 mid · 0 cooked across 8 rated locations.
2 qualifying changes this period · 8 operating locations tracked
Viga
3 clean · 0 mid · 0 cooked across 3 rated locations.
2 qualifying changes 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 →