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Legal Sea Foods
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 20, 2026
- address300 Boylston St, Boston 02116
Is Legal Sea Foods clean?
Legal Sea Foods is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 20, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Legal Sea Foods?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Shell stock Maintaining Identification (Pf) • Several shellstock tags in file missing date of last sold logged on tag. Retrain staff to address.Shell stock Maintaining Identification (Pf) • Several shellstock tags in file missing date of last sold logged on tag. Retrain staff to address.
- ⚠️Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C) • Ceiling tiles with what appears to be water stains and peeling paint. Clean to remove. Determine source of moisture and make all necessary repairs.Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C) • Ceiling tiles with what appears to be water stains and peeling paint. Clean to remove. Determine source of moisture and make all necessary repairs.
When was Legal Sea Foods last inspected?
Legal Sea Foods has 16 inspections on record going back to October 28, 2022. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 20, 2026 | Pass | |
| September 19, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 15, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 8, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 19, 2024 | Fail | |
| May 6, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 29, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| September 18, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 8, 2023 | — | |
| August 30, 2023 | Fail | |
| April 28, 2023 | — |
Legal Sea Foods vs Bay Village
Bay Village runs 88% clean across 350 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 16 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 350 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 January 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.