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Not Your Average Joe's
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 11, 2026
- address200 Terminal Rd, East Boston 02128
Is Not Your Average Joe's clean?
Not Your Average Joe's is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 11, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Not Your Average Joe's?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 11, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Effectiveness-Hair Restraints (C) • Employees observed prepping food in the kitchen without proper hair restraint. Provide proper hair restraint.Effectiveness-Hair Restraints (C) • Employees observed prepping food in the kitchen without proper hair restraint. Provide proper hair restraint.
- ⚠️Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C) • Multiple squeeze bottles observed without labels. Provide labels when removed from original containersFood Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C) • Multiple squeeze bottles observed without labels. Provide labels when removed from original containers
- ⚠️Handwashing Signage (C) • Bar second handsink observed without employee must wash hands signage. ProvideHandwashing Signage (C) • Bar second handsink observed without employee must wash hands signage. Provide
- ⚠️Sanitizers Criteria-Chemicals (P) • Observed the second bar low temp dish machine dispensing sanitizer at a concentration above the approved range. PIC was adivsed to adjust the sanitizer to proper concentration according to manufacturer specifications .criticalSanitizers Criteria-Chemicals (P) • Observed the second bar low temp dish machine dispensing sanitizer at a concentration above the approved range. PIC was adivsed to adjust the sanitizer to proper concentration according to manufacturer specifications .
When was Not Your Average Joe's last inspected?
Not Your Average Joe's has 17 inspections on record going back to March 13, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2026 | Pass | |
| May 4, 2026 | Fail | |
| May 2, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 11, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 3, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 4, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 27, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| May 2, 2023 | — | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| August 29, 2022 | — | |
| December 13, 2021 | Pass |
Not Your Average Joe's vs East Boston
East Boston runs 92% clean across 529 tracked restaurants — 472 clean, 19 mid, 21 cooked.
Against the 529 spots Cooked tracks in East Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 May 11, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.