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🦞 Boston restaurant health inspections

Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division

Search any Boston restaurant's health inspection result — the result the city posted, the violations behind it, and the inspection history. Straight from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, refreshed daily, no account needed.

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Ranked by Cooked's 0–100 risk score, which blends the city's own result with violation counts. Only spots inspected in the last two years are eligible.

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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 11,207 Boston restaurants Cooked tracks, 9,100 are currently rated clean, 759 are mid, and 711 are cooked — about 86% 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 refreshes it daily and does not edit, score or rerank the results — the result you see is the one the city issued.

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 July 24, 2026.

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

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