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La Pinata
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 25, 2025
- address199 Sumner St, East Boston 02128
Is La Pinata clean?
La Pinata is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 25, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at La Pinata?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on November 25, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was La Pinata last inspected?
La Pinata has 22 inspections on record going back to November 27, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 25, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 9, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 2, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 16, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 30, 2024 | Fail | |
| August 22, 2024 | Fail | |
| February 29, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 21, 2024 | Fail | |
| November 29, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 30, 2023 | — | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| December 13, 2022 | Pass |
La Pinata 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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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 November 25, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.