O'saraceno

• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedAugust 26, 2026 →
• address284 Hanover St, Boston 02113

Is O'saraceno clean?

O'saraceno is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 26, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at O'saraceno?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 26, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf)
• ⚠️Miscellaneous Sources of Contamination (C)
• ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf)
• ⚠️Characteristics-Materials for Construction and Repair (C)
• ⚠️Cleaning Agents and Sanitizers Availability (Pf)
• ⚠️Manual and Mechanical Warewashing Equipment Chemical Sanitization-Temperature pH Concentration and Hardness (P)critical
• ⚠️Service Sink (C)
• ⚠️Backflow Prevention (P)critical
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
• ⚠️Outer Openings Protected (C)

O'saraceno inspection and administrative history

O'saraceno has 63 inspections on record going back to October 16, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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O'saraceno vs North End

North End runs 91% clean across 698 tracked restaurants — 578 clean, 33 mid, 26 cooked.

Against the 698 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 1% of them.

Other spots in North End

• ✕ Galleria Umberto
  mid · August 27, 2026
• ✓ Caffe Vittoria
  clean · June 18, 2026
• ✓ Daily Catch
  clean · August 17, 2026
• ✕ Giacomo's
  cooked · April 27, 2018
• ✓ Green Cross Pharmacy
  clean · August 28, 2018
• ? Tonys Restaurant
  not rated · December 30, 2012

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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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