• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJanuary 17, 2014 →
• address5 Broad St, Boston 02109

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Is The Bar Room clean?

The Bar Room is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 17, 2014. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at The Bar Room?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 2 code checks as passed on January 17, 2014.

The Bar Room inspection and administrative history

The Bar Room has 25 inspections on record going back to December 6, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

History worth a look: 4 of these 8 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

The Bar Room vs Downtown

Downtown runs 92% clean across 997 tracked restaurants — 863 clean, 47 mid, 32 cooked.

Against the 997 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 January 17, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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