Joe's American Bar & Grill

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJuly 14, 2026
• address100 Atlantic Av, Boston 02110

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 July 14, 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 July 14, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Backflow Prevention Device Location (C) • 2 bay prep sink observed direct to waste/ missing air gap. Plumbers report in process (6.9.26) PIC to provide detailed plumbers report on the cost install of air gap to: [email protected] *** If air gap is installed prior to compliance inspection a permit must be secured from Inspectional Services Plumbing Division prior to Commencement of anyPlumbing work. Additionally a final approval from the plumbing inspector is required before a reinspection may be scheduled
  Backflow Prevention Device Location (C) • 2 bay prep sink observed direct to waste/ missing air gap. Plumbers report in process (6.9.26) PIC to provide detailed plumbers report on the cost install of air gap to: [email protected] *** If air gap is installed prior to compliance inspection a permit must be secured from Inspectional Services Plumbing Division prior to Commencement of anyPlumbing work. Additionally a final approval from the plumbing inspector is required before a reinspection may be scheduled

When was Joe's American Bar & Grill last inspected?

Joe's American Bar & Grill has 63 inspections on record going back to August 9, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Joe's American Bar & Grill 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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  cooked · September 18, 2017
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• ✓ Pulcinella Mozzarella Bar And Restaurant
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• ✓ Peter Pan @ City Hall Plaza
  clean · October 28, 2011

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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 July 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.