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Hard Rock Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 10, 2022
- address20 Clinton St, Boston 02109
Is Hard Rock Cafe clean?
Hard Rock Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 10, 2022. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Hard Rock Cafe?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on January 10, 2022. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Hard Rock Cafe last inspected?
Hard Rock Cafe has 55 inspections on record going back to June 27, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 14, 2022 | — | |
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| January 10, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 9, 2021 | Pass | |
| April 22, 2021 | Pass | |
| November 30, 2020 | Pass | |
| July 31, 2020 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2020 | Pass | |
| February 19, 2020 | Fail | |
| June 20, 2019 | Pass | |
| June 13, 2019 | Fail |
Hard Rock Cafe 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 January 10, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.