• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJune 26, 2013 →
• address131 State St, Boston 02109

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Is Kitty O'shea's clean?

Kitty O'shea's is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 26, 2013. 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 Kitty O'shea's?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 26, 2013, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Reheatingcritical
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• ⚠️Toilet Enclosed Clean
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Consumer Advisoriescritical

Kitty O'shea's inspection and administrative history

Kitty O'shea's has 23 inspections on record going back to November 14, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Kitty O'shea's vs Downtown

Downtown runs 92% clean across 993 tracked restaurants — 859 clean, 47 mid, 32 cooked.

Against the 993 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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.

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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 June 26, 2013. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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