Cooked?Boston restaurant health inspection downgrades — October 12, 2026
Boston restaurant inspection changes first received by Cooked during the week ending 2026-10-11: 20 downgrades. Official Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division records.
How to read this brief
20 downgrades
These are meaningful inspection records Cooked first received between October 5, 2026 and October 11, 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.
Ratings moved down 📉
West Garden
1890 Centre St · West Roxbury 02132 · West Roxbury
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 9, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 5 total
Vasquez Restaurant
258 Dudley St · Roxbury 02119 · South End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 8, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 6 total
Mala Town
190 Harvard Av · Allston 02134 · Allston
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 8, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 5 total
Lord Jeff's Beef Place
128 Newmarket Sq · Roxbury 02118 · South End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 8, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 6 total
Lulus' Allston
417 Cambridge St · Allston 02134 · Allston
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 8, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 3 total
Mother Juice
100 Hanover St · Boston 02114 · North End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 7, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 3 total
F & T Davey's Supermarket
438 Dudley St · Roxbury 02119 · Roxbury
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 7, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 4 total
Genki Ya Of Boston
232 Tremont St · Boston 02116 · Chinatown
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 7, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 4 total
Nu Flav Restaurant
1098 Blue Hill Av · Dorchester 02124 · Mattapan
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 6, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 8 total
P & R Restaurant & Ice Cream Parlor
208 Dudley St · Roxbury 02119 · Roxbury
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 5, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 8 total
Perkin's Sq Deli
106 Dorchester St · South Boston 02127 · South Boston
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 5, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 5 total
Parish Cafe
359 Boylston St · Boston 02116 · Bay Village
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 5, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 2 total
Tatte Bakery & Cafe
399 Boylston St · Boston 02116 · Bay Village
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 5, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 2 total
El Jefe's Taqueria Of Northeastern
269 Huntington Av · Boston 02115 · South End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 5, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 4 total
Backwoods Pizza
539 Dudley St · Roxbury 02119 · Roxbury
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 5, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 6 total
Tremont House Of Pizza
1590 Tremont St · Mission Hill 02120 · Mission Hill
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 5, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 5 total
Northeastern Univ. Ryder Hall
11 Leon St · Boston 02115 · Longwood
Pass → Fail (clean → mid) · inspection dated October 9, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 4 total
Asian Garden Restaurant Inc.
28 Harrison Av · Boston 02111 · Downtown
Pass → Fail (clean → mid) · inspection dated October 9, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 3 total
Stop & Shop No. 412
1622 Tremont St · Mission Hill 02120 · Mission Hill
Pass → Fail (clean → mid) · inspection dated October 9, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 1 total
Northeastern University Churchill Hall
380 Huntington Av · Boston 02115 · South End
Pass → Fail (clean → mid) · inspection dated October 9, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
0 critical violations · 5 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.
South End
19 changes: 7 setbacks and 12 improvements
0 closures · 7 downgrades · 2 reopenings · 10 recoveries
Roxbury
9 changes: 6 setbacks and 3 improvements
0 closures · 6 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 3 recoveries
Mission Hill
5 changes: 5 setbacks and 0 improvements
0 closures · 5 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 0 recoveries
Fenway
8 changes: 4 setbacks and 4 improvements
0 closures · 4 downgrades · 1 reopening · 3 recoveries
Downtown
7 changes: 3 setbacks and 4 improvements
0 closures · 3 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 4 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.
Tatte Bakery & Cafe
10 clean · 3 mid · 1 cooked across 14 rated locations.
3 qualifying changes this period · 14 operating locations tracked
Caffe Nero
16 clean · 2 mid · 0 cooked across 18 rated locations.
2 qualifying changes this period · 18 operating locations tracked
Mcdonalds
46 clean · 3 mid · 3 cooked across 52 rated locations.
1 qualifying change this period · 52 operating locations tracked
Dollar Tree
7 clean · 2 mid · 0 cooked across 9 rated locations.
1 qualifying change this period · 9 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 →