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Joe's American Bar & Grill
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 17, 2026
- address26 Exeter St, Boston 02116
Is Joe's American Bar & Grill clean?
Joe's American Bar & Grill is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 17, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Joe's American Bar & Grill?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C) • Observed chef drawer at grill station at the end of the cook line broken unable to open; repair or replace the drawer so that it operates properly.Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C) • Observed chef drawer at grill station at the end of the cook line broken unable to open; repair or replace the drawer so that it operates properly.
When was Joe's American Bar & Grill last inspected?
Joe's American Bar & Grill has 55 inspections on record going back to May 11, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 17, 2026 | Pass | |
| March 3, 2026 | Fail | |
| February 25, 2026 | Fail | |
| August 5, 2025 | — | |
| April 25, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 3, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 25, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 3, 2024 | Fail | |
| August 30, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 22, 2024 | Fail | |
| February 27, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 22, 2024 | Fail |
Joe's American Bar & Grill vs Back Bay
Back Bay runs 81% clean across 519 tracked restaurants — 417 clean, 46 mid, 50 cooked.
Against the 519 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 March 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.