Cooked?
Shabu-Zen
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 4, 2025
- address14 Tyler St, Boston 02111
Is Shabu-Zen clean?
Shabu-Zen is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 4, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Shabu-Zen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 4, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Variances (C) • Soiled mop water dumped into hand sink per employee. Provide variance paper work for soiled mop water to be dumped into toilet.Variances (C) • Soiled mop water dumped into hand sink per employee. Provide variance paper work for soiled mop water to be dumped into toilet.
When was Shabu-Zen last inspected?
Shabu-Zen has 33 inspections on record going back to August 28, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 30, 2025 | — | |
| September 4, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 13, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 6, 2025 | Fail | |
| November 25, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 18, 2024 | Fail | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| January 18, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 12, 2024 | — | |
| January 4, 2024 | Fail | |
| September 20, 2023 | — | |
| September 1, 2023 | Pass |
Shabu-Zen vs Leather District
Leather District runs 86% clean across 188 tracked restaurants — 149 clean, 11 mid, 13 cooked.
Against the 188 spots Cooked tracks in Leather District, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 September 4, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.