Cooked?
Banh Mi Ok
- resultFail
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 27, 2025
- address44 School St, Boston 02108
Is Banh Mi Ok clean?
Banh Mi Ok is currently listed as closed by Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, as of its inspection on January 27, 2025. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.
What did inspectors find at Banh Mi Ok?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 27, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️2025 Health Permit not paid remit payment ASAP2025 Health Permit not paid remit payment ASAP
When was Banh Mi Ok last inspected?
Banh Mi Ok has 18 inspections on record going back to November 29, 2021. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 6, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| January 27, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 7, 2024 | Pass | |
| September 17, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 16, 2024 | Fail | |
| October 6, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 28, 2023 | Fail | |
| April 12, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 5, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| October 25, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 18, 2022 | Fail |
Banh Mi Ok vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 January 27, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.