Smoke Shop & Variety is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 23, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean ๐.
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 23, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result โ no violations of any severity were recorded.
Smoke Shop & Variety has 32 inspections on record going back to July 29, 2009. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 23, 2026 | Pass | |
| March 27, 2025 | โ | |
| October 10, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 6, 2024 | closed by the city | |
| March 8, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 28, 2024 | Fail | |
| February 2, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 29, 2022 | โ | |
| March 15, 2022 | โ | |
| March 15, 2022 | โ | |
| December 15, 2021 | Pass | |
| December 7, 2021 | Fail |
Jamaica Plain runs 77% clean across 189 tracked restaurants โ 139 clean, 22 mid, 20 cooked.
Against the 189 spots Cooked tracks in Jamaica Plain, this one comes out cleaner than 23% of them.
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 โ 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 โ this listing's most recent inspection is dated April 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.