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Prima
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 10, 2026
- address12 Park St, Charlestown 02129
Is Prima clean?
Prima is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 10, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Prima?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 10, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf) • Live sightings and captures on most recent IPM report dated 8/22/25. Two week extension as aggressive mass trappings occur over the next two weeks. Provide clean pest report upon re inspection.Controlling Pests (Pf) • Live sightings and captures on most recent IPM report dated 8/22/25. Two week extension as aggressive mass trappings occur over the next two weeks. Provide clean pest report upon re inspection.
When was Prima last inspected?
Prima has 13 inspections on record going back to June 16, 2023. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 10, 2026 | Pass | |
| August 28, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 21, 2025 | Fail | |
| June 20, 2025 | Pass | |
| June 16, 2025 | Pass | |
| June 16, 2025 | Fail | |
| June 11, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 2, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| March 14, 2024 | — | |
| December 7, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 3, 2023 | Pass |
Prima vs West End
West End runs 86% clean across 247 tracked restaurants — 209 clean, 13 mid, 20 cooked.
Against the 247 spots Cooked tracks in West End, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 April 10, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.