• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedSeptember 27, 2018 →
• address772 Boylston St, Boston 02199

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Is L'espalier clean?

L'espalier is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 27, 2018. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at L'espalier?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 27, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Cold Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Inadequate Facilities/Cooling Methods
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical

L'espalier inspection and administrative history

L'espalier has 49 inspections on record going back to September 12, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

History worth a look: 2 of these 8 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

L'espalier vs Back Bay

Back Bay runs 81% clean across 505 tracked restaurants — 406 clean, 49 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 505 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 3% of them.

Other spots in Back Bay

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  mid · September 25, 2020
• ? Panificio Back Bay
  cooked · December 30, 2008
• ✓ Puro
  clean · October 28, 2022
• ✓ Dunkin Donuts
  clean · October 19, 2017
• ? 711 Bistro
  not rated · December 30, 2012
• ✓ Snapchef @N.E. College Of Optometry
  clean · February 5, 2008

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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.

Read the Boston ratings guide →

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 27, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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