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El Barco
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedAugust 22, 2025
- address50 Dalton St, Boston 02115
Is El Barco clean?
El Barco is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 22, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Barco?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C) • Repair the damaged diamond plate floor inside the walkin unit.Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C) • Repair the damaged diamond plate floor inside the walkin unit.
When was El Barco last inspected?
El Barco has 71 inspections on record going back to May 21, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 22, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 25, 2025 | Fail | |
| July 17, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 1, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 17, 2024 | Fail | |
| June 7, 2024 | Fail | |
| November 22, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 15, 2023 | Fail | |
| April 18, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 11, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| October 5, 2022 | Pass |
El Barco 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 August 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.