• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedOctober 20, 2026 →
• address1106 Boylston St, Boston 02215

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Is J.P. Licks @ Boylston St. clean?

J.P. Licks @ Boylston St. is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 20, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at J.P. Licks @ Boylston St.?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Clean condition-Hands and Arms (P)critical
• ⚠️Effectiveness-Hair Restraints (C)
• ⚠️(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf)
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Use Limitation (C)
• ⚠️Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C)
• ⚠️(A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P)critical
• ⚠️Food Labels (Pf)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Covering Receptacles (C)
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
• ⚠️Hand Drying Provision (Pf)
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (C)
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf)
• ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)
• ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)
• ⚠️flagged at inspection

J.P. Licks @ Boylston St. inspection and administrative history

J.P. Licks @ Boylston St. has 45 inspections on record going back to February 14, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

J.P. Licks @ Boylston St. vs Back Bay

Back Bay runs 81% clean across 505 tracked restaurants — 406 clean, 49 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 505 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.

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• ✓ Ikura
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• ✓ Berklee College Of Music
  clean · September 2, 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 October 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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