• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 2, 2021 →
• address1696 Commonwealth Av, Brighton 02135

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Is Pizza Rail clean?

Pizza Rail is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 2, 2021. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Pizza Rail?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 2, 2021, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Use Limitation (C)
• ⚠️Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C)
• ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C)
• ⚠️Cutting Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
• ⚠️Toilet Rooms Enclosed (C)
• ⚠️Hand Drying Provision (Pf)
• ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)
• ⚠️flagged at inspection

Pizza Rail inspection and administrative history

Pizza Rail has 13 inspections on record going back to November 9, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Pizza Rail vs Brighton

Brighton runs 85% clean across 480 tracked restaurants — 395 clean, 37 mid, 33 cooked.

Against the 480 spots Cooked tracks in Brighton, this one comes out cleaner than 6% of them.

Other spots in Brighton

• ✓ Lee's Supermarket
  clean · August 27, 2026
• ✓ The Boyne
  clean · April 12, 2012
• ✓ Brooks Variety
  clean · January 20, 2026
• ✓ Shaloh House
  clean · June 15, 2026
• ✓ Little Pizza King
  clean · March 14, 2008
• ✕ China Maxim Iii
  cooked · August 31, 2021

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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 March 2, 2021. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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