La Terraza Restaurant

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 2, 2026 →
• address19 Bennington St, East Boston 02128

Is La Terraza Restaurant clean?

La Terraza Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 2, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at La Terraza Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 2, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C)
• ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf)
• ⚠️Sponges Use Limitation (C)
• ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C)
• ⚠️(B) and (C) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (C)
• ⚠️Hot Water and Chemical-Methods (P)critical
• ⚠️Toilet Rooms Enclosed (C)
• ⚠️Outer Openings Protected (C)
• ⚠️Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C)
• ⚠️flagged at inspection

La Terraza Restaurant inspection and administrative history

La Terraza Restaurant has 54 inspections on record going back to July 23, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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La Terraza Restaurant vs East Boston

East Boston runs 91% clean across 526 tracked restaurants — 465 clean, 20 mid, 24 cooked.

Against the 526 spots Cooked tracks in East Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 September 2, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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