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Au Bon Pain Outdoor Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 30, 2017
- address310 Congress St, Boston 02127
Is Au Bon Pain Outdoor Cafe clean?
Au Bon Pain Outdoor Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 30, 2017. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Au Bon Pain Outdoor Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on May 30, 2017. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Au Bon Pain Outdoor Cafe last inspected?
Au Bon Pain Outdoor Cafe has 25 inspections on record going back to August 14, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| October 12, 2017 | closed by the city | |
| May 30, 2017 | Pass | |
| March 8, 2016 | Pass | |
| February 29, 2016 | Fail | |
| May 28, 2015 | Pass | |
| May 5, 2015 | Fail | |
| April 21, 2015 | Fail | |
| April 9, 2014 | Pass | |
| December 30, 2013 | — | |
| June 21, 2013 | Pass | |
| December 30, 2012 | — |
Au Bon Pain Outdoor Cafe vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 30, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.