Serafina

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 14, 2025
• address237 Newbury St, Boston 02116

Is Serafina clean?

Serafina is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 14, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Serafina?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 14, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A )Cooling Methods (Pf) • Cooked foods cooling in plastic containers: meat sauce 100F. Cooked foods covered in refrigerator: potato 72F chicken 82F. Spread out cooked foods in or on metal containers to allow for rapid cooling. Do not cover cooked foods until cooled to 41F. Foods cooked in past hour moved to shallow metal pans.
  (A )Cooling Methods (Pf) • Cooked foods cooling in plastic containers: meat sauce 100F. Cooked foods covered in refrigerator: potato 72F chicken 82F. Spread out cooked foods in or on metal containers to allow for rapid cooling. Do not cover cooked foods until cooled to 41F. Foods cooked in past hour moved to shallow metal pans.
• ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Interior chute of ice machine with black mold-like substance. Clean and sanitize regularly.
  (A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Interior chute of ice machine with black mold-like substance. Clean and sanitize regularly.
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Soils and debris in floor drains under ice machine and at bar. Clean to avoid attracting pests.
  Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Soils and debris in floor drains under ice machine and at bar. Clean to avoid attracting pests.
• ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • Missing ceiling tiles in kitchen. Replace to prevent contamination.
  Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • Missing ceiling tiles in kitchen. Replace to prevent contamination.

When was Serafina last inspected?

Serafina has 23 inspections on record going back to January 31, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Serafina vs Back Bay

Back Bay runs 81% clean across 519 tracked restaurants — 417 clean, 46 mid, 50 cooked.

Against the 519 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 22% 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 14, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.