• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 20, 2023 →
• address173 Portland St, Boston 02114

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Is Porters Bar & Grill clean?

Porters Bar & Grill is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 20, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Porters Bar & Grill?

Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 20, 2023. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.

Porters Bar & Grill inspection and administrative history

Porters Bar & Grill has 57 inspections on record going back to September 5, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Porters Bar & Grill vs West End

West End runs 88% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 206 clean, 15 mid, 12 cooked.

Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in West End, this one comes out cleaner than 11% of them.

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• ✕ Tangierino/The Boston Cigar Club
  mid · August 21, 2026
• ✓ Sports Grille Boston
  clean · March 17, 2015
• ✓ Mulligans
  cooked · October 22, 2007

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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 October 20, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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