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Blue Bottle Coffee
- resultFail
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 15, 2026
- address800 Boylston St, Boston 02199
Is Blue Bottle Coffee clean?
Blue Bottle Coffee is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 15, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Blue Bottle Coffee?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 15, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Controlling Pests (C) • Mice droppings have been cleaned up. Provide updated IPM pest control report upon re inspection.Controlling Pests (C) • Mice droppings have been cleaned up. Provide updated IPM pest control report upon re inspection.
When was Blue Bottle Coffee last inspected?
Blue Bottle Coffee has 33 inspections on record going back to July 5, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 2, 2026 | — | |
| January 27, 2026 | — | |
| January 15, 2026 | Fail | |
| January 8, 2026 | Fail | |
| December 29, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 25, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 28, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 28, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 7, 2024 | Fail | |
| July 24, 2023 | — | |
| January 18, 2023 | Pass |
Blue Bottle Coffee vs Back Bay
Back Bay runs 81% clean across 519 tracked restaurants — 417 clean, 46 mid, 50 cooked.
Against the 519 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.