• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJuly 28, 2026 →
• address48 Temple Pl, Boston 02111

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Is Hobgoblin clean?

Hobgoblin is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 28, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Hobgoblin?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 28, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Backflow Prevention (P)critical
• ⚠️Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C)

Hobgoblin inspection and administrative history

Hobgoblin has 13 inspections on record going back to July 10, 2023. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Hobgoblin vs Downtown

Downtown runs 92% clean across 993 tracked restaurants — 859 clean, 47 mid, 32 cooked.

Against the 993 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 3% of them.

Other spots in Downtown

• ✓ Kwench Juice Cafe
  clean · July 29, 2026
• ✓ Silver Dove Afternoon Tea
  clean · March 18, 2026
• ✓ Boston Chops Downtown
  clean · October 29, 2025
• ✓ Wndr Museum
  clean · May 5, 2026
• ✓ Grace By Nia
  clean · August 6, 2026
• ✓ Jiang Nan
  clean · April 30, 2026

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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 July 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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