• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 3, 2018 →
• address805 Harrison Av, Roxbury 02118

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Is Subway clean?

Subway is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 3, 2018. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at Subway?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 3, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Hot Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Toilet Enclosed Clean
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings

Subway inspection and administrative history

Subway has 16 inspections on record going back to June 17, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 2 of these 8 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Subway vs South End

South End runs 83% clean across 682 tracked restaurants — 502 clean, 59 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 682 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 6% of them.

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  mid · March 7, 2016
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  cooked · July 13, 2018
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  clean · January 19, 2023
• ✕ Mass Ave Smoke Shop Inc.
  mid · January 22, 2015
• ✓ Abyssinia Market
  clean · May 9, 2024
• ✓ Cafe Quattro
  clean · April 19, 2023

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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.

Read the Boston ratings guide →

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 January 3, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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