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Au Bon Pain
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 1, 2018
- address431 Boylston St, Boston 02116
Is Au Bon Pain clean?
Au Bon Pain is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 1, 2018. 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 February 1, 2018. 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 38 inspections on record going back to February 4, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| August 3, 2018 | — | |
| February 1, 2018 | Pass | |
| July 12, 2017 | — | |
| June 28, 2017 | Fail | |
| October 31, 2016 | — | |
| September 29, 2016 | Fail | |
| February 5, 2016 | Pass | |
| January 22, 2016 | Fail | |
| August 10, 2015 | Pass | |
| August 3, 2015 | Fail | |
| January 23, 2015 | Pass |
Au Bon Pain vs Bay Village
Bay Village runs 88% clean across 350 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 16 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 350 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 February 1, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.