New Saigon
- resultFail
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 26, 2026 →
- address985 Bennington St, East Boston 02128
Is New Saigon clean?
New Saigon is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 26, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at New Saigon?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 26, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Service Sink (C)
- ⚠️Backflow Prevention (P)critical
New Saigon inspection and administrative history
New Saigon has 22 inspections on record going back to August 4, 2023. The 12 most recent are shown below.
August 26, 2026 Fail
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View full inspection →August 19, 2026 Fail
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View full inspection →June 3, 2026 Administrative record filed
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View full inspection →May 8, 2026 Fail
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View full inspection →February 20, 2026 Fail
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View full inspection →December 26, 2025 Fail
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View full inspection →December 18, 2025 Fail
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View full inspection →August 21, 2025 Pass
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View full inspection →August 18, 2025 Fail
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View full inspection →August 11, 2025 Fail
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View full inspection →January 28, 2025 Pass
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View full inspection →January 13, 2025 Fail
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View full inspection →New Saigon vs East Boston
East Boston runs 91% clean across 526 tracked restaurants — 465 clean, 20 mid, 24 cooked.
Against the 526 spots Cooked tracks in East Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 August 26, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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