Temazcal Cantina

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedSeptember 10, 2025
• address250 Northern Av, Boston 02210

Is Temazcal Cantina clean?

Temazcal Cantina is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 10, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Temazcal Cantina?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 10, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf) • Provide sanitizer strip for the low temp dish machine
  Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf) • Provide sanitizer strip for the low temp dish machine
• ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C) • Repair gasket on the walkin refrigerator
  Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C) • Repair gasket on the walkin refrigerator
• ⚠️Cutting Surfaces (C) • Cutting board at the cookline heavily scored.Replace
  Cutting Surfaces (C) • Cutting board at the cookline heavily scored.Replace
• ⚠️Handwashing Sinks-Location and Placement (Pf) • Install hand sink at the bar for easy access for bar staff to wash hands.
  Handwashing Sinks-Location and Placement (Pf) • Install hand sink at the bar for easy access for bar staff to wash hands.
• ⚠️Using a Handwashing Sink-Operation and Maintenance (Pf) • Hand sink blocked with rollin rack.Unblock
  Using a Handwashing Sink-Operation and Maintenance (Pf) • Hand sink blocked with rollin rack.Unblock
• ⚠️Hand Drying Provision (Pf) • No paper towels athe bar hand sink.Provide
  Hand Drying Provision (Pf) • No paper towels athe bar hand sink.Provide
• ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • Repair the wall at the bar exposing the drain pipes
  Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • Repair the wall at the bar exposing the drain pipes

When was Temazcal Cantina last inspected?

Temazcal Cantina has 27 inspections on record going back to August 10, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Temazcal Cantina vs South Boston Waterfront

South Boston Waterfront runs 93% clean across 391 tracked restaurants — 333 clean, 15 mid, 12 cooked.

Against the 391 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston Waterfront, this one comes out cleaner than 8% of them.

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• ✕ Broadway's Best Pizza
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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 September 10, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.