• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMay 28, 2014 →
• address74 Salem St, Boston 02113

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Is Ferrara's Kitchen & Bar clean?

Ferrara's Kitchen & Bar is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 28, 2014. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Ferrara's Kitchen & Bar?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 28, 2014, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️PHF's Properly Thawed
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Dishwashng Facilities
• ⚠️Toxic Items: Original Containercritical
• ⚠️Consumer Advisoriescritical

Ferrara's Kitchen & Bar inspection and administrative history

Ferrara's Kitchen & Bar has 17 inspections on record going back to September 23, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Ferrara's Kitchen & Bar vs North End

North End runs 91% clean across 698 tracked restaurants — 578 clean, 33 mid, 26 cooked.

Against the 698 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated May 28, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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