• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedDecember 27, 2012 →
• address15 N Beacon St, Allston 02134

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Is La Befona Pizzeria clean?

La Befona Pizzeria is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on December 27, 2012. 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 La Befona Pizzeria?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 27, 2012, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Separation Segregation Cross Contaminationcritical
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Clean Equipment & Utensils Storage
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Medicines FirstAid Storagecritical
• ⚠️Premises Maintained

La Befona Pizzeria inspection and administrative history

La Befona Pizzeria has 11 inspections on record going back to December 13, 2010.

La Befona Pizzeria vs Brighton

Brighton runs 85% clean across 480 tracked restaurants — 395 clean, 37 mid, 33 cooked.

Against the 480 spots Cooked tracks in Brighton, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 December 27, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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