• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMarch 29, 2019 →
• address800 Boylston St, Boston 02199

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Is Au Bon Pain Store No. 41 clean?

Au Bon Pain Store No. 41 is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 29, 2019. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Au Bon Pain Store No. 41?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 29, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Cold Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Inadequate Facilities/Cooling Methods
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors

Au Bon Pain Store No. 41 inspection and administrative history

Au Bon Pain Store No. 41 has 51 inspections on record going back to November 29, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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.

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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.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated March 29, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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