Avra Boston

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedApril 6, 2026
• address1001 Boylston St, Boston 02215

Is Avra Boston clean?

Avra Boston is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 6, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Avra Boston?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 6, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events (Pf) • Provide vomit & diarrhea kit- Procedures and supplies will be emailed over with this report.
  Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events (Pf) • Provide vomit & diarrhea kit- Procedures and supplies will be emailed over with this report.
• ⚠️Food Display-Preventing Contamination by Consumers (P) • Please provide an SOP for the fish display case and SOP for eviscerating the fish. Please provide a sneeze guard to the fish display case if the customers will be served the fish items from the display case. --critical
  Food Display-Preventing Contamination by Consumers (P) • Please provide an SOP for the fish display case and SOP for eviscerating the fish. Please provide a sneeze guard to the fish display case if the customers will be served the fish items from the display case. --
• ⚠️Consumption of Animal Foods that are Raw Undercooked or Not Otherwise Processed to Eliminate Pathogens (Pf) • Provide proper verbiage for allergen on all menus. Allergen verbiage will be sent over with this report
  Consumption of Animal Foods that are Raw Undercooked or Not Otherwise Processed to Eliminate Pathogens (Pf) • Provide proper verbiage for allergen on all menus. Allergen verbiage will be sent over with this report
• ⚠️Temperature Measuring Devices Manual and Mechanical Warewashing (Pf) • No means to temp the dish temp dish machinec. Provide irreversible thermometer or 160 thermal strips.
  Temperature Measuring Devices Manual and Mechanical Warewashing (Pf) • No means to temp the dish temp dish machinec. Provide irreversible thermometer or 160 thermal strips.
• ⚠️Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C) • Observed grout lines in the kitchen area that need to be regrouted. Regrout to prevent water and food debris from accumulating and stagnating.
  Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C) • Observed grout lines in the kitchen area that need to be regrouted. Regrout to prevent water and food debris from accumulating and stagnating.
• ⚠️Outer Openings Protected (C) • Provide door sweeps to exterior doors and to the doors in the kitchen leading out to the hallways/common areas to ensure no pest can enter.
  Outer Openings Protected (C) • Provide door sweeps to exterior doors and to the doors in the kitchen leading out to the hallways/common areas to ensure no pest can enter.
• ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • Soap dispenser behind the bar in the coffee area needs to be installed. There was soap at the hand sink.
  Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • Soap dispenser behind the bar in the coffee area needs to be installed. There was soap at the hand sink.

When was Avra Boston last inspected?

Avra Boston has 2 inspections on record going back to April 6, 2026.

Avra Boston vs Back Bay

Back Bay runs 81% clean across 519 tracked restaurants — 417 clean, 46 mid, 50 cooked.

Against the 519 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 April 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.