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Matthews Arena Concession
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 31, 2025
- address238 Saint Botolph St, Boston 02115
Is Matthews Arena Concession clean?
Matthews Arena Concession is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 31, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Matthews Arena Concession?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on January 31, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Matthews Arena Concession last inspected?
Matthews Arena Concession has 30 inspections on record going back to September 25, 2009. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 31, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 4, 2024 | Pass | |
| May 13, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 20, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 5, 2023 | Fail | |
| March 2, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| February 1, 2022 | — | |
| September 30, 2021 | Pass | |
| December 3, 2020 | — | |
| October 7, 2019 | Pass |
Matthews Arena Concession vs South End
South End runs 81% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 498 clean, 63 mid, 54 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 31, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.