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Au Bon Pain
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 5, 2020
- address53 State St, Boston 02109
Is Au Bon Pain clean?
Au Bon Pain is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 5, 2020. 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 5, 2020. 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 33 inspections on record going back to October 11, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| February 5, 2020 | Pass | |
| August 19, 2019 | — | |
| March 19, 2019 | — | |
| November 7, 2018 | — | |
| July 16, 2018 | Pass | |
| June 28, 2018 | Fail | |
| June 6, 2017 | Pass | |
| December 5, 2016 | Pass | |
| November 8, 2016 | — | |
| October 31, 2016 | Fail | |
| March 4, 2016 | — |
Au Bon Pain vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 5, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.