Cooked?
Taco Bell
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 22, 2026
- address74 Summer St, Boston 02110
Is Taco Bell clean?
Taco Bell is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 22, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Taco Bell?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️(A)(1) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • Hash browns and breakfast potato ranging from 90F to 105F in hot holding unit. Discarded. Ensure proper hot holding at 135F or above.critical(A)(1) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • Hash browns and breakfast potato ranging from 90F to 105F in hot holding unit. Discarded. Ensure proper hot holding at 135F or above.
When was Taco Bell last inspected?
Taco Bell has 29 inspections on record going back to October 2, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 22, 2026 | Pass | |
| June 16, 2026 | Fail | |
| January 7, 2026 | Pass | |
| September 23, 2025 | — | |
| April 8, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 18, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 7, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 31, 2024 | Fail | |
| May 16, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 30, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 23, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — |
Taco Bell vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% of them.
Other spots in Downtown
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 June 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.