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Joseph's Pizzeria
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedAugust 15, 2025
- address8 S Huntington Av, Mission Hill 02130
Is Joseph's Pizzeria clean?
Joseph's Pizzeria is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 15, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Joseph's Pizzeria?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 15, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • Hood sticker observed expired June 29th 2025. Provide updated hood sticker from a licensed hood sticker.Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • Hood sticker observed expired June 29th 2025. Provide updated hood sticker from a licensed hood sticker.
- ⚠️PIC to post current Certificate of Inspection PIC to post current Health Permit 2025PIC to post current Certificate of Inspection PIC to post current Health Permit 2025
- ⚠️Allergen Awareness Certificate observed expired. Provide and post current allergen certificateAllergen Awareness Certificate observed expired. Provide and post current allergen certificate
When was Joseph's Pizzeria last inspected?
Joseph's Pizzeria has 27 inspections on record going back to January 2, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 11, 2026 | — | |
| August 15, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 6, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 12, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 29, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 24, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 24, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 18, 2023 | Fail | |
| June 16, 2023 | Pass | |
| June 9, 2023 | Fail | |
| March 10, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 3, 2023 | Fail |
Joseph's Pizzeria vs Mission Hill
Mission Hill runs 77% clean across 251 tracked restaurants — 186 clean, 24 mid, 31 cooked.
Against the 251 spots Cooked tracks in Mission Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 23% 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 August 15, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.