• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 5, 2013 →
• address714 Commonwealth Av, Boston 02215

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Is Sal's Pizza clean?

Sal's Pizza is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 5, 2013. 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 Sal's Pizza?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 5, 2013, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Thermometers Provided
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• ⚠️PIC Knowledgecritical

Sal's Pizza inspection and administrative history

Sal's Pizza has 9 inspections on record going back to September 13, 2010.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

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Fenway runs 90% clean across 424 tracked restaurants — 373 clean, 22 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 424 spots Cooked tracks in Fenway, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 August 5, 2013. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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