• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedNovember 8, 2023 →
• address390 Massachusetts Av, Roxbury 02118

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Is Subway clean?

Subway is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 8, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Subway?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 8, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C)
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf)

Subway inspection and administrative history

Subway has 85 inspections on record going back to May 6, 2009. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Subway vs South End

South End runs 83% clean across 677 tracked restaurants — 500 clean, 56 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 677 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 13% of them.

Other spots in South End

• ✓ Boston Super Dog
  clean · May 9, 2013
• ✓ Tasty Caribbean
  clean · March 2, 2010
• ✓ Walden Local Butcher
  clean · August 12, 2026
• ✓ Southern Proper
  clean · November 25, 2019
• ✕ Red Mango
  mid · May 16, 2014
• ✓ Slade's Bar & Grill
  clean · August 17, 2026

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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 November 8, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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