Back Deck

health inspection result · Downtown · Boston
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Is Back Deck clean?

Back Deck is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 28, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Back Deck?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 28, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

  • ⚠️Controlling Pests (C)

Back Deck inspection and administrative history

Back Deck has 54 inspections on record going back to June 13, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

August 28, 2026 Fail Eating & Drinking · 1 failed finding

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August 19, 2026 Fail Eating & Drinking · 1 failed finding

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August 13, 2026 Pass Eating & Drinking · 0 failed findings

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August 11, 2026 Fail Eating & Drinking · 4 failed findings

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January 28, 2026 Fail Eating & Drinking · 2 failed findings

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January 20, 2026 Fail Eating & Drinking · 5 failed findings

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June 27, 2025 Administrative record filed Eating & Drinking · 2 failed findings

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May 29, 2025 Pass Eating & Drinking · 0 failed findings

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May 8, 2025 Fail Eating & Drinking · 6 failed findings

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January 17, 2025 Pass Eating & Drinking · 0 failed findings

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November 7, 2024 Fail Eating & Drinking · 1 failed finding

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September 24, 2024 Fail Eating & Drinking · 1 failed finding

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Back Deck vs Downtown

Downtown runs 92% clean across 993 tracked restaurants — 859 clean, 47 mid, 32 cooked.

Against the 993 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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.

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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 August 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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