• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 14, 2019 →
• address500 Boylston St, Boston 02116

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Is Martin News clean?

Martin News is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 14, 2019. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Martin News?

Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on May 14, 2019. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.

Martin News inspection and administrative history

Martin News has 17 inspections on record going back to April 23, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Martin News vs Bay Village

Bay Village runs 87% clean across 342 tracked restaurants — 279 clean, 18 mid, 25 cooked.

Against the 342 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 13% of them.

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• ✕ Rachel's Kitchen
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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.

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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 May 14, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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