• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 26, 2023 →
• address800 Washington St, Boston 02111

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Is Au Bon Pain clean?

Au Bon Pain is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 26, 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 26, 2023. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.

Au Bon Pain inspection and administrative history

Au Bon Pain has 26 inspections on record going back to May 9, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Au Bon Pain vs Chinatown

Chinatown runs 86% clean across 297 tracked restaurants — 245 clean, 22 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 297 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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.

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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 May 26, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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