• resultFail
• critical violations9
• last inspectedMay 21, 2018 →
• address827 Boylston St, Boston 02116

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Is Poke Bento clean?

Poke Bento is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 21, 2018. Inspectors wrote up 9 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Poke Bento?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 21, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Separation Segregation Cross Contaminationcritical
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Food Utensil Storage
• ⚠️Adequate Handwashing/Where/When/Howcritical
• ⚠️Good Hygienic Practicescritical
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Test Kit Provided
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Cleancritical
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Clean Equipment & Utensils Storage
• ⚠️Location Accessiblecritical
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Labeled Common Namecritical
• ⚠️Separation/Sanitizer Criteriacritical
• ⚠️Premises Maintained
• ⚠️Soiled Linen Storage
• ⚠️Anti-Choking
• ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical
• ⚠️Consumer Advisoriescritical

Poke Bento inspection and administrative history

Poke Bento has 7 inspections on record going back to September 22, 2017.

Poke Bento vs Back Bay

Back Bay runs 81% clean across 503 tracked restaurants — 405 clean, 51 mid, 42 cooked.

Against the 503 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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.

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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 May 21, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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