North Street Grille & Cafe

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 5, 2026
• address229 North St, Boston 02113

Is North Street Grille & Cafe clean?

North Street Grille & Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 5, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at North Street Grille & Cafe?

Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on March 5, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.

When was North Street Grille & Cafe last inspected?

North Street Grille & Cafe has 42 inspections on record going back to October 13, 2009. The 12 most recent are shown below.

North Street Grille & Cafe vs North End

North End runs 88% clean across 717 tracked restaurants — 579 clean, 37 mid, 40 cooked.

Against the 717 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 11% of them.

Other spots in North End

• ✓ Assaggio Restaurant
  clean · September 9, 2016
• ✕ The Grand Canal
  cooked · July 13, 2012
• ✕ Bricco Restaurant/Bakery
  cooked · July 16, 2026
• ✓ Osteria Rustico
  clean · March 1, 2010
• ✓ Ernestos Pizzeria
  clean · May 16, 2012
• ✓ Goodbar
  clean · August 26, 2013

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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 March 5, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.