Cooked?Boston restaurant health inspection downgrades — October 26, 2026
Boston restaurant inspection changes first received by Cooked during the week ending 2026-10-25: 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 19, 2026 and October 25, 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 📉
Lazuri Chicken N Pizza
487 Cambridge St · Allston 02134 · Brighton
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 23, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 14 total
Norfolk Convenience
118 Norfolk St · Dorchester 02124 · Mattapan
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 23, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 5 total
Sorelle Cafe
280 Congress St · Boston 02110
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 23, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 3 total
Dig Inn
277 Washington St · Boston 02108 · Downtown
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 22, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 6 total
Anshur Restauruant
291 Roxbury St · Roxbury 02119 · Mission Hill
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 22, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 6 total
Maria's Kitchen
1819 Centre St · West Roxbury 02132 · West Roxbury
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 22, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 4 total
Potbelly Sandwich Shop
200 Terminal Rd · East Boston 02128 · East Boston
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 22, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 5 total
Coffee Turco
483 Cambridge St · Allston 02134 · Brighton
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 22, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 18 total
Fai Canteen
535 Albany St · Roxbury 02118 · South End
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 22, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 3 total
Pueblo Viejo
309 Bennington St · East Boston 02128 · East Boston
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 21, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 7 total
Broadside
99 Broad St · Boston 02109
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 21, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 6 total
Virtual Food Court
313 Old Colony Av · South Boston 02127 · South Boston
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 21, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 4 total
Espresso Love Cafe
33 Broad St · Boston 02109 · Downtown
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 21, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 4 total
Dunkin Donuts/Plaza Ent
66 Cornhill · Boston 02114
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 20, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 2 total
Potbelly Sandwich Shop
300 Terminal Rd · East Boston 02128
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 20, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 4 total
Ziggy's
583 Washington St · Brighton 02135 · Brighton
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 20, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 1 total
Cafe Landwer
651 Boylston St · Boston 02116 · Back Bay
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 20, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 8 total
Gachi Sushi & Noodles
300 Terminal Rd · East Boston 02128
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 20, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 3 total
J.P. Licks @ Boylston St.
1106 Boylston St · Boston 02215 · Back Bay
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 20, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
2 critical violations · 16 total
Max's Deli Cafe
30 Batterymarch · Boston 02109
Pass → Fail (clean → cooked) · inspection dated October 19, 2026
Status when this brief was published: not listed as closed.
1 critical violation · 8 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.
Downtown
17 changes: 14 setbacks and 3 improvements
0 closures · 14 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 3 recoveries
Back Bay
14 changes: 10 setbacks and 4 improvements
0 closures · 10 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 4 recoveries
Brighton
11 changes: 8 setbacks and 3 improvements
0 closures · 8 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 3 recoveries
East Boston
10 changes: 5 setbacks and 5 improvements
0 closures · 5 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 5 recoveries
Dorchester
6 changes: 5 setbacks and 1 improvement
0 closures · 5 downgrades · 0 reopenings · 1 recovery
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.
Potbelly Sandwich Shop
3 clean · 0 mid · 2 cooked across 5 rated locations.
2 qualifying changes this period · 5 operating locations tracked
Cafe Landwer
2 clean · 0 mid · 1 cooked across 3 rated locations.
2 qualifying changes this period · 3 operating locations tracked
Subway
38 clean · 7 mid · 5 cooked across 50 rated locations, plus 1 not rated.
1 qualifying change this period · 51 operating locations tracked
Dominos Pizza
13 clean · 2 mid · 4 cooked across 19 rated locations, plus 1 not rated.
1 qualifying change this period · 20 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 →