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Legal Sea Foods
- resultFail
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJune 24, 2026
- address100 Huntington Av, Boston 02116
Is Legal Sea Foods clean?
Legal Sea Foods is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 24, 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 Legal Sea Foods?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 24, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Temperature Measuring Devices Manual and Mechanical Warewashing (Pf) • No irreversible indicator for high temperature dish machine. Provide.Temperature Measuring Devices Manual and Mechanical Warewashing (Pf) • No irreversible indicator for high temperature dish machine. Provide.
- ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Bar floors with debris and soils on floors under and behind equipment. Clean to remove.Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Bar floors with debris and soils on floors under and behind equipment. Clean to remove.
- ⚠️Backflow Prevention (P) • Food prep sink has a direct to waste drain. Install air gap indirect to waste drain connection for drain under food prep sink. Consult a license plumber and provide a copy of ISD plumbing permit.criticalBackflow Prevention (P) • Food prep sink has a direct to waste drain. Install air gap indirect to waste drain connection for drain under food prep sink. Consult a license plumber and provide a copy of ISD plumbing permit.
- ⚠️Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C) • Ktchen with grout voids in floor in several areas some areas have been completed. Ongoing.Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C) • Ktchen with grout voids in floor in several areas some areas have been completed. Ongoing.
When was Legal Sea Foods last inspected?
Legal Sea Foods has 26 inspections on record going back to March 8, 2021. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 24, 2026 | Fail | |
| June 17, 2026 | Fail | |
| November 25, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 21, 2025 | Fail | |
| November 18, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 26, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 3, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 23, 2025 | Fail | |
| January 16, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 30, 2024 | — | |
| April 23, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 31, 2024 | — |
Legal Sea Foods vs South End
South End runs 81% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 498 clean, 63 mid, 54 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 June 24, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.