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Otto Pizza
- resultFail
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 11, 2026
- address416 W Broadway, South Boston 02127
Is Otto Pizza clean?
Otto Pizza is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 11, 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 Otto Pizza?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 11, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Backflow Prevention Air Gap (P) • No air gap @ prep sink supply plumbers report for work done.criticalBackflow Prevention Air Gap (P) • No air gap @ prep sink supply plumbers report for work done.
When was Otto Pizza last inspected?
Otto Pizza has 31 inspections on record going back to February 26, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 11, 2026 | Fail | |
| April 22, 2026 | Fail | |
| April 8, 2026 | Fail | |
| June 30, 2025 | — | |
| June 23, 2025 | Fail | |
| January 30, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 22, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 26, 2024 | Pass | |
| September 6, 2024 | Fail | |
| March 14, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 7, 2024 | Fail | |
| August 25, 2023 | Pass |
Otto Pizza vs South Boston Waterfront
South Boston Waterfront runs 93% clean across 391 tracked restaurants — 333 clean, 15 mid, 12 cooked.
Against the 391 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston Waterfront, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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.