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Luke's Lobster
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 8, 2026
- address75 Exeter St, Boston 02199
Is Luke's Lobster clean?
Luke's Lobster is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 8, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Luke's Lobster?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 8, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Backflow Prevention (P) • No prep sink on site to wash cucumbers. Install prep sink with indirect waste drain. Sink being used is a single bay rinse sink to rinse plates prior to being sanitized in high temperature dish machine.criticalBackflow Prevention (P) • No prep sink on site to wash cucumbers. Install prep sink with indirect waste drain. Sink being used is a single bay rinse sink to rinse plates prior to being sanitized in high temperature dish machine.
- ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Wall damaged in hallway next to ramp with holes in drywall. Repair. Open ceiling above dry storage area in rear above dry food goods and single use articles. Install solid ceiling above dry food storage areas.Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Wall damaged in hallway next to ramp with holes in drywall. Repair. Open ceiling above dry storage area in rear above dry food goods and single use articles. Install solid ceiling above dry food storage areas.
When was Luke's Lobster last inspected?
Luke's Lobster has 34 inspections on record going back to July 10, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 8, 2026 | Pass | |
| March 31, 2026 | Fail | |
| October 3, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 28, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 10, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 5, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 27, 2024 | Fail | |
| June 26, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 6, 2023 | — | |
| September 7, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 31, 2022 | Fail | |
| May 3, 2022 | Pass |
Luke's Lobster vs Back Bay
Back Bay runs 78% clean across 519 tracked restaurants — 402 clean, 46 mid, 65 cooked.
Against the 519 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 22% 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 April 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.