Cigar Masters is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 13, 2018. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 13, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
Cigar Masters has 7 inspections on record going back to September 7, 2007.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| November 13, 2018 | Fail | |
| July 1, 2015 | closed by the city | |
| December 30, 2012 | — | |
| September 21, 2007 | — | |
| September 7, 2007 | Fail |
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 11% of them.
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 November 13, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.