• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedApril 9, 2018 →
• address120 Charles St, Boston 02114

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Is Pressed clean?

Pressed is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 9, 2018. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Pressed?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 9, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Dishwashng Facilities
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Clean Equipment & Utensils Storage
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Premises Maintained

Pressed inspection and administrative history

Pressed has 14 inspections on record going back to December 22, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Pressed vs Beacon Hill

Beacon Hill runs 87% clean across 147 tracked restaurants — 123 clean, 9 mid, 10 cooked.

Against the 147 spots Cooked tracks in Beacon Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.

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• ✓ Hissho Sushi @ Suffolk Univ.
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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 April 9, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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