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Au Bon Pain
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 1, 2023
- address17 Blackfan St, Boston 02115
Is Au Bon Pain clean?
Au Bon Pain is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 1, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Au Bon Pain?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on May 1, 2023. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Au Bon Pain last inspected?
Au Bon Pain has 35 inspections on record going back to May 6, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| May 1, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 20, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| January 3, 2023 | Fail | |
| December 20, 2022 | Fail | |
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| March 7, 2022 | — | |
| August 9, 2021 | Pass | |
| August 2, 2021 | Fail |
Au Bon Pain vs Longwood
Longwood runs 78% clean across 203 tracked restaurants — 153 clean, 19 mid, 23 cooked.
Against the 203 spots Cooked tracks in Longwood, this one comes out cleaner than 22% 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 1, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.