Abe & Louie's

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 22, 2026
• address793 Boylston St, Boston 02116

Is Abe & Louie's clean?

Abe & Louie's is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 22, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Abe & Louie's?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Manual and Mechanical Warewashing Equipment Chemical Sanitization-Temperature pH Concentration and Hardness (P) • Tested both low temp dishmachine behind the bar on the 2nd floor and test strip stated no sanitizer. Both dishmachine were at 120/120. PIC called Ecolab at the time of the inspection. Repaircritical
  Manual and Mechanical Warewashing Equipment Chemical Sanitization-Temperature pH Concentration and Hardness (P) • Tested both low temp dishmachine behind the bar on the 2nd floor and test strip stated no sanitizer. Both dishmachine were at 120/120. PIC called Ecolab at the time of the inspection. Repair
• ⚠️Backflow Prevention (P) • Observed no air gap under one of the prep sinks in the basement. Contact licensed plumber pull permit at 1010 Mass Ave plumbing inspector must approve before health can sign off.critical
  Backflow Prevention (P) • Observed no air gap under one of the prep sinks in the basement. Contact licensed plumber pull permit at 1010 Mass Ave plumbing inspector must approve before health can sign off.
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Observed worn grout lines in the kitchen area. Regrout to prevent water and food debris from accumulating and stagnating. PIC called the contractor and he said the tile will be done in 3 weeks times.
  Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Observed worn grout lines in the kitchen area. Regrout to prevent water and food debris from accumulating and stagnating. PIC called the contractor and he said the tile will be done in 3 weeks times.

When was Abe & Louie's last inspected?

Abe & Louie's has 51 inspections on record going back to April 7, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Abe & Louie's vs Back Bay

Back Bay runs 81% clean across 519 tracked restaurants — 417 clean, 46 mid, 50 cooked.

Against the 519 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 19% of them.

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How Boston grades 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.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated May 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.