• last posted resultPass · July 15, 2024
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJune 5, 2025 →
• address1 Brighton Av, Allston 02134

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Is Poke Boys clean?

Poke Boys is currently listed as closed by Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, as of its inspection on June 5, 2025. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected. The last result the city posted here was Pass on July 15, 2024, before the closure.

What did inspectors find at Poke Boys?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf)

Poke Boys inspection and administrative history

Poke Boys has 21 inspections on record going back to March 2, 2021. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Poke Boys vs Allston

Allston runs 88% clean across 492 tracked restaurants — 414 clean, 34 mid, 24 cooked.

Against the 492 spots Cooked tracks in Allston, 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 June 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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