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El Jefe's Taqueria
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 9, 2026
- address80 Boylston St, Boston 02116
Is El Jefe's Taqueria clean?
El Jefe's Taqueria is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 9, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Jefe's Taqueria?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on June 9, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was El Jefe's Taqueria last inspected?
El Jefe's Taqueria has 22 inspections on record going back to August 4, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 9, 2026 | Pass | |
| February 27, 2026 | Pass | |
| February 20, 2026 | Fail | |
| September 12, 2025 | — | |
| June 11, 2025 | Pass | |
| June 4, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 25, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 17, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 20, 2024 | — | |
| February 9, 2024 | — | |
| February 9, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — |
El Jefe's Taqueria vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 85% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 252 clean, 22 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 June 9, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.