• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 22, 2012 →
• address720 E Broadway, South Boston 02127

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Is South Ocean Restaurant clean?

South Ocean Restaurant is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 22, 2012. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at South Ocean Restaurant?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 8 code checks as passed on October 22, 2012.

South Ocean Restaurant inspection and administrative history

South Ocean Restaurant has 24 inspections on record going back to April 20, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

South Ocean Restaurant vs South Boston

South Boston runs 91% clean across 185 tracked restaurants — 157 clean, 8 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 185 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 October 22, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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