Cooked?
Ef Boston School
- resultFail
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 7, 2026
- address200 Lake St, Brighton 02135
Is Ef Boston School clean?
Ef Boston School is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 7, 2026. 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 Ef Boston School?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Backflow Prevention (P) • At the prep sink in the main basement kitchen where produce is washed there is a direct connection from the sink to the waste water system; have a licensed plumber pull proper permits and install an air gap at the prep sink so that an indirect connection exists at the prep sink.criticalBackflow Prevention (P) • At the prep sink in the main basement kitchen where produce is washed there is a direct connection from the sink to the waste water system; have a licensed plumber pull proper permits and install an air gap at the prep sink so that an indirect connection exists at the prep sink.
When was Ef Boston School last inspected?
Ef Boston School has 20 inspections on record going back to December 10, 2021. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 7, 2026 | Fail | |
| June 16, 2026 | Fail | |
| September 3, 2025 | — | |
| August 27, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 19, 2025 | — | |
| September 30, 2024 | Pass | |
| September 23, 2024 | Fail | |
| March 13, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| October 5, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 28, 2023 | Fail | |
| February 14, 2023 | Pass |
Ef Boston School vs Brighton
Brighton runs 83% clean across 486 tracked restaurants — 393 clean, 43 mid, 35 cooked.
Against the 486 spots Cooked tracks in Brighton, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.