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Au Bon Pain
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 16, 2023
- address133 Brookline Av, Boston 02215
Is Au Bon Pain clean?
Au Bon Pain is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 16, 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 March 16, 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 29 inspections on record going back to May 16, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| March 16, 2023 | Pass | |
| February 14, 2023 | — | |
| September 12, 2022 | Pass | |
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| April 6, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| March 3, 2022 | Fail | |
| February 24, 2022 | — | |
| January 26, 2022 | Fail | |
| January 19, 2022 | Fail | |
| December 1, 2021 | — |
Au Bon Pain vs Fenway
Fenway runs 89% clean across 433 tracked restaurants — 379 clean, 23 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 433 spots Cooked tracks in Fenway, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 March 16, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.