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Hotel Aka Back Bay-Sundry Shop
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 12, 2023
- address154 Berkeley St, Boston 02116
Is Hotel Aka Back Bay-Sundry Shop clean?
Hotel Aka Back Bay-Sundry Shop is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 12, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Hotel Aka Back Bay-Sundry Shop?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 12, 2023. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Hotel Aka Back Bay-Sundry Shop last inspected?
Hotel Aka Back Bay-Sundry Shop has 7 inspections on record going back to August 25, 2022.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| August 2, 2024 | closed by the city | |
| October 12, 2023 | Pass | |
| February 28, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| August 29, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 25, 2022 | Fail |
Hotel Aka Back Bay-Sundry Shop vs Bay Village
Bay Village runs 88% clean across 350 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 16 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 350 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 October 12, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.