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Happy Lemon
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 12, 2026
- address3193 Washington St, Jamaica Plain 02130
Is Happy Lemon clean?
Happy Lemon is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 12, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Happy Lemon?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on February 12, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Happy Lemon last inspected?
Happy Lemon has 16 inspections on record going back to September 15, 2022. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 12, 2026 | Pass | |
| October 9, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 26, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 23, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 5, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 21, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 7, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 19, 2024 | Pass | |
| September 10, 2024 | Fail | |
| May 3, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 26, 2024 | Fail | |
| October 31, 2023 | Pass |
Happy Lemon vs Roxbury
Roxbury runs 83% clean across 708 tracked restaurants — 559 clean, 69 mid, 49 cooked.
Against the 708 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 12, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.