Ernestos Pizza

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedFebruary 11, 2026
• address69 Salem St, Boston 02113

Is Ernestos Pizza clean?

Ernestos Pizza is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 11, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Ernestos Pizza?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 11, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Backflow Prevention Device Location (C) • Food prep sink downtairs in the lower level observed direct to waste. PIC to provide plumber report from a licensed plumber on the install of an air gap/ backflow preventor
  Backflow Prevention Device Location (C) • Food prep sink downtairs in the lower level observed direct to waste. PIC to provide plumber report from a licensed plumber on the install of an air gap/ backflow preventor

When was Ernestos Pizza last inspected?

Ernestos Pizza has 58 inspections on record going back to March 13, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Ernestos Pizza vs North End

North End runs 88% clean across 717 tracked restaurants — 579 clean, 37 mid, 40 cooked.

Against the 717 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 February 11, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.