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East Boston Variety
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 20, 2025
- address3 Gladstone St, East Boston 02128
Is East Boston Variety clean?
East Boston Variety is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 20, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at East Boston Variety?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on November 20, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was East Boston Variety last inspected?
East Boston Variety has 34 inspections on record going back to June 7, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 20, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 22, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 26, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 19, 2024 | Pass | |
| September 28, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 24, 2023 | — | |
| October 27, 2022 | Pass | |
| April 29, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| December 2, 2021 | Pass | |
| July 14, 2021 | Pass | |
| March 25, 2021 | Pass |
East Boston Variety vs East Boston
East Boston runs 92% clean across 529 tracked restaurants — 472 clean, 19 mid, 21 cooked.
Against the 529 spots Cooked tracks in East Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 November 20, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.