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🦞 Boston restaurant health inspections

Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division

Look up a Boston restaurant's health inspection result before choosing where to eat. See the dated result from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, with published findings and available inspection history. No account needed.

Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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Latest Boston inspection data brief 🗞️

Boston restaurant inspection changes first received by Cooked during the week ending 2026-09-06: 20 downgrades. Official Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division records.

Boston restaurant health inspection downgrades — September 7, 2026 →

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Shut by the city in Boston 🚫

Kitchens Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division closed — most recently inspected first. A spot reopens only after it passes a follow-up, so a row here means the closure is the newest thing on file.

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Every closure on file with Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, one location per chain. Cities publish on their own schedule, so read the date on each row.

Most cooked in Boston right now 🪳

see all 636 spots rated cooked in Boston →

Ranked by Cooked's 0–100 comparison score, which uses the city's own result with available violation counts. Only spots inspected in the last two years are eligible, and one location per chain so the list is a picture of the city rather than of one franchise.

Just downgraded in Boston

Their most recent inspection came back worse than the one before it.

The newest result against the one it replaced. Cities publish on their own schedule, so read the date on each row — the most recent inspection in Cooked's Boston data is September 2, 2026.

On a clean run in Boston ✨

Three or more consecutive inspections with nothing that dropped them below a pass — most recently confirmed first.

One spot per neighborhood and one location per chain: chains are inspected far more often than anyone else, so an unfiltered version of this list is the same three franchises ten times.

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25 neighborhoods, every one with its own inspection list — and together, every restaurant Cooked tracks in Boston.

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Boston health inspections, explained

How does Boston grade restaurants?

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.

How many Boston restaurants have a clean rating?

Of the 10,956 Boston restaurants Cooked tracks, 8,958 are currently rated clean, 724 are mid, and 636 are cooked — about 87% of rated spots come back clean.

Where does this Boston inspection data come from?

Directly from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, published as open data through Analyze Boston. Cooked preserves the source result and adds its own clean, mid or cooked comparison. These labels and list rankings are Cooked’s interpretation, not extra findings from the authority.

How often are Boston restaurants inspected?

That varies by risk and by city policy, and a restaurant can be re-inspected sooner after a bad result. The most recent inspection in Cooked's Boston data is dated September 2, 2026.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. How Cooked handles this data →

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