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Life Alive
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 13, 2026
- address431 Boylston St, Boston 02116
Is Life Alive clean?
Life Alive is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 13, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Life Alive?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 13, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf) • Observed food items inside the walk in refrigeration unit not date marked. Provide datemarking.Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf) • Observed food items inside the walk in refrigeration unit not date marked. Provide datemarking.
- ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Observed mold-like substance inside the ice machine. Clean and sanitize to remove(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Observed mold-like substance inside the ice machine. Clean and sanitize to remove
- ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Observed debris on the floor in the basement. Clean floors to remove debris.Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Observed debris on the floor in the basement. Clean floors to remove debris.
When was Life Alive last inspected?
Life Alive has 21 inspections on record going back to June 11, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 13, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 6, 2026 | Fail | |
| February 26, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 19, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 16, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 30, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 16, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| August 25, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 11, 2022 | Fail | |
| April 7, 2022 | Pass |
Life Alive 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 13, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.