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Esthetic Bean
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 6, 2026
- address16 Preble St, South Boston 02127
Is Esthetic Bean clean?
Esthetic Bean is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 6, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Esthetic Bean?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on March 6, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Esthetic Bean last inspected?
Esthetic Bean has 25 inspections on record going back to August 23, 2021. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 6, 2026 | Pass | |
| August 5, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 4, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 20, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 13, 2025 | Fail | |
| January 30, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 14, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 16, 2024 | Fail | |
| December 9, 2024 | Fail | |
| October 1, 2024 | — | |
| September 24, 2024 | Fail | |
| August 16, 2024 | Fail |
Esthetic Bean vs South End
South End runs 80% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 489 clean, 61 mid, 65 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 20% 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 March 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.