• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 23, 2026 →
• address80 Bennington St, East Boston 02128

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Is La Reina clean?

La Reina is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 23, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at La Reina?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 23, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C)
• ⚠️Thawing (C)
• ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf)

La Reina inspection and administrative history

La Reina has 60 inspections on record going back to October 19, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 2 of these 11 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

La Reina vs East Boston

East Boston runs 93% clean across 526 tracked restaurants — 471 clean, 18 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 526 spots Cooked tracks in East Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.

Other spots in East Boston

• ✓ Madonna Shrine
  clean · October 16, 2019
• ✓ Day Square Liquors
  clean · June 4, 2014
• ✓ Lanzilli Groceria
  clean · March 30, 2026
• ✓ Punto Rojo
  clean · August 12, 2026
• ✕ Estrellita Food Market
  cooked · March 25, 2009
• ✓ Braulio's Market
  clean · April 2, 2012

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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 October 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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