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Re: 3 Bars
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 28, 2025
- address244 Tremont St, Boston 02116
Is Re: 3 Bars clean?
Re: 3 Bars is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 28, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Re: 3 Bars?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 28, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Re: 3 Bars last inspected?
Re: 3 Bars has 28 inspections on record going back to August 5, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 28, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 15, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 28, 2023 | Pass | |
| December 11, 2023 | Fail | |
| May 25, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| December 13, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| January 11, 2022 | Pass | |
| December 28, 2021 | Pass | |
| November 18, 2021 | Fail | |
| April 19, 2019 | Fail |
Re: 3 Bars vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 85% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 252 clean, 22 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 October 28, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.