Shabu-Zen

• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJuly 30, 2026 →
• address14 Tyler St, Boston 02111

Is Shabu-Zen clean?

Shabu-Zen is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 30, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Shabu-Zen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 30, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Cleaning Floors Dustless Methods (C)
• ⚠️Sanitizers Criteria-Chemicals (P)critical
• ⚠️flagged at inspection
• ⚠️Backflow Prevention (P)critical
• ⚠️Temperature Measuring Devices Manual and Mechanical Warewashing (Pf)

Shabu-Zen inspection and administrative history

Shabu-Zen has 34 inspections on record going back to August 28, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Shabu-Zen vs Leather District

Leather District runs 88% clean across 185 tracked restaurants — 149 clean, 8 mid, 13 cooked.

Against the 185 spots Cooked tracks in Leather District, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 July 30, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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