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?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 1 code check as passed on May 15, 2026.

South St. Diner inspection and administrative history

South St. Diner has 64 inspections on record going back to February 16, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

South St. Diner vs Leather District

Leather District runs 88% clean across 185 tracked restaurants — 149 clean, 8 mid, 13 cooked.

Against the 185 spots Cooked tracks in Leather District, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 May 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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