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O'cheese
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 30, 2026
- address261 North St, Boston 02109
Is O'cheese clean?
O'cheese is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 30, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at O'cheese?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 30, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Backflow Prevention Device Location (C) • Facility observed without a prep sink . Per PIC produce/vegetables gets rinse in the middle compartment of 3 bay sink. PIC to provide report from a licensed plumber on the cost of install of a prep sink with airgap to : [email protected] Plumbers report in progress per PIC (3.17.26)Backflow Prevention Device Location (C) • Facility observed without a prep sink . Per PIC produce/vegetables gets rinse in the middle compartment of 3 bay sink. PIC to provide report from a licensed plumber on the cost of install of a prep sink with airgap to : [email protected] Plumbers report in progress per PIC (3.17.26)
When was O'cheese last inspected?
O'cheese has 13 inspections on record going back to October 13, 2023. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 30, 2026 | Pass | |
| March 17, 2026 | Fail | |
| February 25, 2026 | Fail | |
| February 18, 2026 | Fail | |
| November 21, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 10, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 29, 2025 | Fail | |
| November 5, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 28, 2024 | Fail | |
| June 20, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 12, 2024 | — | |
| February 23, 2024 | — |
O'cheese 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 14% 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 March 30, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.