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Legal Crossing
- resultFail
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 9, 2020
- address558 Washington St, Boston 02111
Is Legal Crossing clean?
Legal Crossing is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 9, 2020. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Legal Crossing?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 9, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Second compressor of the walk-in refrigerator with excess frost byuild-up. Defrost and clean to remove. Unit was functioning at below 41F at the time of the inspection.Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Second compressor of the walk-in refrigerator with excess frost byuild-up. Defrost and clean to remove. Unit was functioning at below 41F at the time of the inspection.
- ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • 3 Bay sink is not draining properly. Garbage disposal is leaking. Address and make any necessary repairs. Dish machine is being used to clean and sanitize all equipment until the 3 bay sink has been repaired.System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • 3 Bay sink is not draining properly. Garbage disposal is leaking. Address and make any necessary repairs. Dish machine is being used to clean and sanitize all equipment until the 3 bay sink has been repaired.
When was Legal Crossing last inspected?
Legal Crossing has 13 inspections on record going back to February 24, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| February 5, 2021 | — | |
| September 17, 2020 | — | |
| September 9, 2020 | Fail | |
| November 21, 2019 | Pass | |
| January 31, 2019 | Pass | |
| May 10, 2018 | Pass | |
| October 13, 2017 | Pass | |
| January 6, 2017 | Pass | |
| June 15, 2016 | Pass | |
| November 23, 2015 | Pass | |
| March 7, 2014 | Pass |
Legal Crossing vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 September 9, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.