• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 4, 2010 →
• address75 Federal St, Boston 02110

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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 March 4, 2010. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Au Bon Pain?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 2 code checks as passed on March 4, 2010.

Au Bon Pain inspection and administrative history

Au Bon Pain has 12 inspections on record going back to May 2, 2007.

Au Bon Pain vs Downtown

Downtown runs 92% clean across 993 tracked restaurants — 859 clean, 47 mid, 32 cooked.

Against the 993 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 March 4, 2010. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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