Sams

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedDecember 8, 2014 →
• address28 Northern Av, Boston 02210

Is Sams clean?

Sams is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on December 8, 2014. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Sams?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 4 code checks as passed on December 8, 2014.

Sams inspection and administrative history

Sams has 13 inspections on record going back to May 25, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Sams vs South Boston Waterfront

South Boston Waterfront runs 93% clean across 389 tracked restaurants — 333 clean, 17 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 389 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston Waterfront, this one comes out cleaner than 7% of them.

Other spots in South Boston Waterfront

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• ✓ Concession Stand North East
  clean · September 19, 2019
• ✓ Concession Stand North West
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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.

Read the Boston ratings guide →

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 December 8, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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