• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedFebruary 11, 2020 →
• address131 Dartmouth St, Boston 02116

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Is B. Good clean?

B. Good is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 11, 2020. 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 B. Good?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 11, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Cutting Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C)
• ⚠️Intensity-Lighting (C)
• ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)
• ⚠️(A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P)critical
• ⚠️Temperature Measuring Devices-Functionality (C)

B. Good inspection and administrative history

B. Good has 61 inspections on record going back to August 23, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

B. Good vs South End

South End runs 83% clean across 677 tracked restaurants — 500 clean, 56 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 677 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.

Other spots in South End

• ✓ Laz Cafe
  clean · June 12, 2013
• ✓ Andre's Cafe
  clean · August 24, 2009
• ✓ Boston Marriott/Starbucks
  clean · August 11, 2015
• ✓ Starbucks Coffee
  clean · August 14, 2019
• ✓ Target Store T-1898
  clean · June 11, 2026
• ✓ Target Store T-1898
  clean · June 10, 2022

See every restaurant inspection in South End →

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.

Read the Boston ratings guide →

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 February 11, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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