Soju Ba

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 15, 2025
• address1265 Boylston St, Boston 02215

Is Soju Ba clean?

Soju Ba is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 15, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Soju Ba?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 15, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • Items at the open top prep station unit reading 58-60F for approx 60-90 min per PIC(raw chicken wings tofu peppers).Maintain cold holding 41F or below. PIC removing items to alternate unit to cool/hold 41F or belowcritical
  (A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • Items at the open top prep station unit reading 58-60F for approx 60-90 min per PIC(raw chicken wings tofu peppers).Maintain cold holding 41F or below. PIC removing items to alternate unit to cool/hold 41F or below
• ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C) • The open top reach in unit is reading 58-60F.Repair Maintain cold holding 41F or below
  Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C) • The open top reach in unit is reading 58-60F.Repair Maintain cold holding 41F or below
• ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Clean the interior of the ice machine to remove mold like soils.
  (A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Clean the interior of the ice machine to remove mold like soils.
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Clean the ineriors of the beer reachin units to remove rusty water & soils. Clean the interiors of the reach in bar units to remove soils. Clean the soda gun holders to remove soils
  Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Clean the ineriors of the beer reachin units to remove rusty water & soils. Clean the interiors of the reach in bar units to remove soils. Clean the soda gun holders to remove soils
• ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • The drainpipe under the sanitizer bay(3 bay sink) is leaking.Repair
  System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • The drainpipe under the sanitizer bay(3 bay sink) is leaking.Repair
• ⚠️Intensity-Lighting (C) • There are multiple light bulbs above the cook line(hood) not operating.Replace bulbs
  Intensity-Lighting (C) • There are multiple light bulbs above the cook line(hood) not operating.Replace bulbs
• ⚠️Common Name-Working Containers (Pf) • Provide labels on all the chemical spray bottles.
  Common Name-Working Containers (Pf) • Provide labels on all the chemical spray bottles.

When was Soju Ba last inspected?

Soju Ba has 16 inspections on record going back to July 1, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Soju Ba vs Fenway

Fenway runs 89% clean across 433 tracked restaurants — 379 clean, 23 mid, 22 cooked.

Against the 433 spots Cooked tracks in Fenway, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 15, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.