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South St. Diner
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 15, 2026
- address178 Kneeland St, Boston 02111
Is South St. Diner clean?
South St. Diner is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 15, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at South St. Diner?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 15, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Provide a choke safe employee on site. Post current certificateProvide a choke safe employee on site. Post current certificate
When was South St. Diner last inspected?
South St. Diner has 64 inspections on record going back to February 16, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 15, 2026 | Pass | |
| May 14, 2026 | Fail | |
| December 11, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 4, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 8, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 3, 2024 | — | |
| February 1, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 25, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| July 11, 2023 | Pass | |
| July 5, 2023 | Fail | |
| February 23, 2023 | Pass |
South St. Diner vs Leather District
Leather District runs 85% clean across 188 tracked restaurants — 147 clean, 11 mid, 15 cooked.
Against the 188 spots Cooked tracks in Leather District, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 May 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.