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Au Bon Pain
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 7, 2018
- address360 Huntington Av, Boston 02115
Is Au Bon Pain clean?
Au Bon Pain is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 7, 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 March 7, 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 50 inspections on record going back to September 4, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| March 7, 2018 | Pass | |
| December 14, 2017 | Pass | |
| March 8, 2017 | Pass | |
| February 27, 2017 | Fail | |
| January 5, 2017 | Pass | |
| May 17, 2016 | — | |
| October 5, 2015 | — | |
| September 28, 2015 | Fail | |
| May 7, 2015 | — | |
| April 27, 2015 | Fail | |
| November 25, 2014 | — |
Au Bon Pain vs South End
South End runs 81% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 498 clean, 63 mid, 54 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 7, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.