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Martin News Shop
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 24, 2019
- address75 State St, Boston 02109
Is Martin News Shop clean?
Martin News Shop is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 24, 2019. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Martin News Shop?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on January 24, 2019. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Martin News Shop last inspected?
Martin News Shop has 14 inspections on record going back to April 17, 2009. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| January 24, 2019 | Pass | |
| March 1, 2018 | Pass | |
| July 11, 2017 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2016 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2016 | — | |
| February 26, 2016 | Pass | |
| December 29, 2014 | Pass | |
| October 9, 2013 | — | |
| December 30, 2012 | — | |
| August 1, 2012 | — | |
| November 23, 2011 | Pass |
Martin News Shop vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 24, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.