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Brooks Variety
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 20, 2026
- address32 Brooks St, Brighton 02135
Is Brooks Variety clean?
Brooks Variety is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 20, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Brooks Variety?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Floors with dust and soils. Clean to remove.Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Floors with dust and soils. Clean to remove.
- ⚠️Prohibiting Animals (Pf) • Cat in store. Remove.Prohibiting Animals (Pf) • Cat in store. Remove.
When was Brooks Variety last inspected?
Brooks Variety has 38 inspections on record going back to November 5, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 20, 2026 | Pass | |
| December 17, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 13, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 30, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 10, 2024 | — | |
| October 2, 2024 | Fail | |
| February 5, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| May 26, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 17, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| September 23, 2022 | Pass |
Brooks Variety vs Brighton
Brighton runs 83% clean across 486 tracked restaurants — 393 clean, 43 mid, 35 cooked.
Against the 486 spots Cooked tracks in Brighton, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.