• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 30, 2020 →
• address329 Columbus Av, Boston 02116

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Is Coda Bar & Kitchen clean?

Coda Bar & Kitchen is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 30, 2020. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Coda Bar & Kitchen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 30, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events (Pf)
• ⚠️Cooling (P)critical
• ⚠️Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C)
• ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)

Coda Bar & Kitchen inspection and administrative history

Coda Bar & Kitchen has 46 inspections on record going back to May 22, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Coda Bar & Kitchen vs South End

South End runs 83% clean across 677 tracked restaurants — 500 clean, 56 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 677 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 6% of them.

Other spots in South End

• ✕ B-Good(Juice Bar)
  mid · August 20, 2010
• ✓ South End Open Market/Farmers Market
  clean · May 25, 2007
• ✓ The Olive Garden Italian Restaurant No. 1674
  clean · June 22, 2026
• ✕ Slade's Bar & Grill
  cooked · March 24, 2017
• ✓ Pacific Restaurant Inc.
  clean · February 22, 2008
• ? South End Open Market/Farmers Market
  not rated · December 30, 2012

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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 January 30, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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