• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 15, 2021 →
• address101 Merrimac St, Boston 02114

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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 October 15, 2021. 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 October 15, 2021. 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 48 inspections on record going back to October 29, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Au Bon Pain vs West End

West End runs 88% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 206 clean, 15 mid, 12 cooked.

Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in West End, 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.

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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 October 15, 2021. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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