• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedNovember 27, 2019 →
• address200 Clarendon St, Boston 02116

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Is Martin's News Shops No. 1 clean?

Martin's News Shops No. 1 is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 27, 2019. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Martin's News Shops No. 1?

Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on November 27, 2019. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.

Martin's News Shops No. 1 inspection and administrative history

Martin's News Shops No. 1 has 21 inspections on record going back to May 2, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Martin's News Shops No. 1 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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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 November 27, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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