Cooked?
Martin's News
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 16, 2019
- address1 Lincoln St, Boston 02111
Is Martin's News clean?
Martin's News is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 16, 2019. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Martin's News?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on September 16, 2019. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Martin's News last inspected?
Martin's News has 14 inspections on record going back to September 30, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| September 16, 2019 | Pass | |
| December 14, 2018 | Pass | |
| September 18, 2017 | Pass | |
| December 14, 2016 | Pass | |
| August 13, 2014 | Pass | |
| July 30, 2014 | Fail | |
| October 15, 2013 | Pass | |
| February 27, 2013 | Pass | |
| December 30, 2012 | — | |
| February 14, 2012 | Pass | |
| June 23, 2011 | Pass |
Martin's News 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 September 16, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.