California Pizza Kitchen

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJuly 17, 2026
• address800 Boylston St, Boston 02199

Is California Pizza Kitchen clean?

California Pizza Kitchen is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 17, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at California Pizza Kitchen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️When to Wash (P) • Observed a food emloyee change tasks and cut avacado with an ungloved hand. Food discarded PIC instructed worker to wash hands and don clean gloves. COS. Retrain staff on the importance of handwashing.critical
  When to Wash (P) • Observed a food emloyee change tasks and cut avacado with an ungloved hand. Food discarded PIC instructed worker to wash hands and don clean gloves. COS. Retrain staff on the importance of handwashing.
• ⚠️(A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • Griled chicken 54F Chopped tomatoes 54F Product made within four hour range removed from service and placed on indirect ice to cool to below 41F. Retrain staff on proper holding temperatures.critical
  (A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • Griled chicken 54F Chopped tomatoes 54F Product made within four hour range removed from service and placed on indirect ice to cool to below 41F. Retrain staff on proper holding temperatures.

When was California Pizza Kitchen last inspected?

California Pizza Kitchen has 91 inspections on record going back to August 22, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

California Pizza Kitchen 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 19% 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 July 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.