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Playa Bowls
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedAugust 14, 2025
- address2193 Commonwealth Av, Brighton 02135
Is Playa Bowls clean?
Playa Bowls is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 14, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Playa Bowls?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on August 14, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Playa Bowls last inspected?
Playa Bowls has 25 inspections on record going back to February 13, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 8, 2026 | — | |
| August 14, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 19, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 12, 2024 | Fail | |
| June 7, 2024 | Pass | |
| May 30, 2024 | Fail | |
| December 14, 2023 | — | |
| May 30, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 15, 2023 | Fail | |
| October 20, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 13, 2022 | Fail | |
| March 17, 2022 | Pass |
Playa Bowls vs Brighton
Brighton runs 83% clean across 486 tracked restaurants — 393 clean, 43 mid, 35 cooked.
Against the 486 spots Cooked tracks in Brighton, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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 August 14, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.