• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 28, 2026 →
• address160 Commonwealth Av, Boston 02116

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Is Buttermilk & Bourbon clean?

Buttermilk & Bourbon is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 28, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Buttermilk & Bourbon?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 28, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C)
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (C)

Buttermilk & Bourbon inspection and administrative history

Buttermilk & Bourbon has 46 inspections on record going back to May 7, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Buttermilk & Bourbon vs Back Bay

Back Bay runs 81% clean across 503 tracked restaurants — 405 clean, 51 mid, 42 cooked.

Against the 503 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 15% of them.

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• ✓ Sorellina Restaurant
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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 August 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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