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Backbay Wine & Spirits
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 4, 2026
- address441 Stuart St, Boston 02116
Is Backbay Wine & Spirits clean?
Backbay Wine & Spirits is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 4, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Backbay Wine & Spirits?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 4, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Safe Unadulterated and Honestly Presented (P) • Numerous bars of cheese expired November 2025 and January 2026. Product removed from service. Ensure staf is rotating stock and checking expiration dates on TCS retail foods. Expired shelf stable food can be segregated and marked reduced for quick sale.criticalSafe Unadulterated and Honestly Presented (P) • Numerous bars of cheese expired November 2025 and January 2026. Product removed from service. Ensure staf is rotating stock and checking expiration dates on TCS retail foods. Expired shelf stable food can be segregated and marked reduced for quick sale.
When was Backbay Wine & Spirits last inspected?
Backbay Wine & Spirits has 17 inspections on record going back to November 1, 2017. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 4, 2026 | Pass | |
| February 25, 2026 | Fail | |
| June 6, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 30, 2025 | Fail | |
| January 30, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| January 20, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 9, 2023 | Fail | |
| May 10, 2022 | Pass | |
| January 6, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 6, 2021 | Pass | |
| February 18, 2021 | Pass |
Backbay Wine & Spirits vs Bay Village
Bay Village runs 88% clean across 350 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 16 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 350 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 4, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.