Cooked?Boston restaurant health inspection downgrades — October 19, 2026
Boston restaurant inspection changes first received by Cooked during the week ending 2026-10-18: 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 12, 2026 and October 18, 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 📉
Chipotle Mexican Grill
553 Boylston St · Boston 02116 · Back Bay
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 16, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 4 total
Dunkin Donuts(757 Centre St.)
757 Centre St · Jamaica Plain 02130 · Jamaica Plain
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 16, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 5 total
El Penol Restaurant
54 Bennington St · East Boston 02128 · East Boston
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 16, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 10 total
Eastern Standard
775 Beacon St · Boston 02215 · Fenway
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 16, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 4 total
Locontes Italian Restaurant
114 Salem St · Boston 02113 · North End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 16, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 14 total
Boston Back Bay Hilton
40 Dalton St · Boston 02115 · Back Bay
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 16, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 4 total
El Palmar Restaurant
290 Bennington St · East Boston 02128 · East Boston
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 15, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 5 total
Boston Yacht Haven
87 Commercial Wharf · Boston 02110 · North End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 15, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 4 total
Apollo's Market
914 Morton St · Dorchester 02126 · Mattapan
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 15, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 5 total
Pleasant Cafe
4511 Washington St · Roslindale 02131 · West Roxbury
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 14, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 3 total
T D Garden Legends Club
100 Legends Wa · Boston 02114
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 14, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 4 total
La Chiva Restaurant
259 Bennington St · East Boston 02128 · East Boston
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 14, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 6 total
The Joint
605 Centre St · Jamaica Plain 02130 · Jamaica Plain
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 14, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 6 total
Don Tequeno Y Dona Arepa
401A Centre St · Jamaica Plain 02130 · Mission Hill
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 14, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 4 total
Nicole's Pizza
639 Tremont St · Roxbury 02118 · South End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 13, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 6 total
Rocco's Cucina & Bar
450 Commercial St · Boston 02113 · North End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 13, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 12 total
Chilacates/Love And Light
4257 Washington St · Roslindale 02131 · Roslindale
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 13, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 5 total
Super Stop & Shop No. 459
460 Blue Hill Av · Roxbury 02121 · Roxbury
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 9, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 9 total
Dig Inn
557 Boylston St · Boston 02116 · Back Bay
Fail → Fail (mid → cooked) · inspection dated October 16, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 4 total
Courtyard Cafe
200 Longwood Av · Boston 02115 · Longwood
Pass → Fail (clean → mid) · inspection dated October 16, 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.
Back Bay
11 changes: 7 setbacks and 4 improvements
0 closures · 7 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 4 recoveries
East Boston
9 changes: 6 setbacks and 3 improvements
0 closures · 6 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 3 recoveries
North End
12 changes: 4 setbacks and 8 improvements
0 closures · 4 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 8 recoveries
Jamaica Plain
4 changes: 4 setbacks and 0 improvements
0 closures · 4 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 0 recoveries
Fenway
8 changes: 3 setbacks and 5 improvements
0 closures · 3 downgrades · 1 reopening · 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.
Dig Inn
3 clean · 0 mid · 1 cooked across 4 rated locations.
2 qualifying changes this period · 4 operating locations tracked
Saltie Girl
3 clean · 0 mid · 0 cooked across 3 rated locations.
2 qualifying changes this period · 3 operating locations tracked
Chipotle Mexican Grill
6 clean · 1 mid · 1 cooked across 8 rated locations.
1 qualifying change this period · 8 operating locations tracked
Gong Cha
6 clean · 1 mid · 0 cooked across 7 rated locations.
1 qualifying change this period · 7 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 →