• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedSeptember 9, 2020 →
• address558 Washington St, Boston 02111

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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)
• ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C)

Legal Crossing inspection and administrative history

Legal Crossing has 13 inspections on record going back to February 24, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

Legal Crossing vs Downtown

Downtown runs 92% clean across 997 tracked restaurants — 863 clean, 47 mid, 32 cooked.

Against the 997 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 9, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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