• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 31, 2025 →
• address37 Bowdoin St, Boston 02114

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Is Grotto clean?

Grotto is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 31, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Grotto?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 7 code checks as passed on March 31, 2025.

Grotto inspection and administrative history

Grotto has 58 inspections on record going back to June 27, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Grotto vs Beacon Hill

Beacon Hill runs 90% clean across 148 tracked restaurants — 129 clean, 7 mid, 7 cooked.

Against the 148 spots Cooked tracks in Beacon Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 March 31, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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