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Legal Seafoods
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 8, 2026
- address200 Terminal Rd, East Boston 02128
Is Legal Seafoods clean?
Legal Seafoods is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 8, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Legal Seafoods?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 8, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C) • Multiple squeeze bottles observed without labels. Provide labels when removed from original containersFood Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C) • Multiple squeeze bottles observed without labels. Provide labels when removed from original containers
- ⚠️Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf) • Bar first Low temp dishmachine / repair unit to operate 120/120 and provide proper sanitizer to test at 50-100ppmSanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf) • Bar first Low temp dishmachine / repair unit to operate 120/120 and provide proper sanitizer to test at 50-100ppm
- ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • Pipe below 3 compartment sink observed leaking. RepairSystem Maintained in Good Repair (C) • Pipe below 3 compartment sink observed leaking. Repair
- ⚠️Handwashing Cleanser Availability (Pf) • Kitchen handwashing sink near the prep sink observed without soap/Provide hand soap and mantain all the time . (COS)Handwashing Cleanser Availability (Pf) • Kitchen handwashing sink near the prep sink observed without soap/Provide hand soap and mantain all the time . (COS)
When was Legal Seafoods last inspected?
Legal Seafoods has 13 inspections on record going back to May 10, 2021. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2026 | Pass | |
| April 30, 2026 | Fail | |
| June 6, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 30, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 27, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| August 15, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| August 16, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 2, 2022 | Fail | |
| December 15, 2021 | Pass | |
| December 8, 2021 | Fail |
Legal Seafoods vs East Boston
East Boston runs 92% clean across 529 tracked restaurants — 472 clean, 19 mid, 21 cooked.
Against the 529 spots Cooked tracks in East Boston, 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.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated May 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.