Banyan Bar & Refuge

• last posted resultFail · February 5, 2026
• critical violations0
• last inspectedSeptember 18, 2026 →
• address537 Tremont St, Boston 02116

Is Banyan Bar & Refuge clean?

Banyan Bar & Refuge is currently listed as closed by Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, as of its inspection on September 18, 2026. 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. The last result the city posted here was Fail on February 5, 2026, before the closure.

What did inspectors find at Banyan Bar & Refuge?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 18, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A) Ceasing Operations and Reporting (Pf)

Banyan Bar & Refuge inspection and administrative history

Banyan Bar & Refuge has 32 inspections on record going back to July 10, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

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Against the 682 spots Cooked tracks in South End, 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.

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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 September 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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