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Pockets Billiard Club
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 1, 2025
- address981 Bennington St, East Boston 02128
Is Pockets Billiard Club clean?
Pockets Billiard Club is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 1, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Pockets Billiard Club?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 1, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Pockets Billiard Club last inspected?
Pockets Billiard Club has 28 inspections on record going back to September 24, 2009. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 1, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 10, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 1, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| November 30, 2023 | — | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| October 25, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| October 7, 2021 | — | |
| January 6, 2021 | — | |
| November 13, 2019 | Pass | |
| November 8, 2019 | Fail |
Pockets Billiard Club vs East Boston
East Boston runs 92% clean across 529 tracked restaurants — 472 clean, 19 mid, 21 cooked.
Against the 529 spots Cooked tracks in East Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 October 1, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.