Cooked?
The Barking Crab
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 15, 2026
- address88 Sleeper St, Boston 02210
Is The Barking Crab clean?
The Barking Crab is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 15, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Barking Crab?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on July 15, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was The Barking Crab last inspected?
The Barking Crab has 118 inspections on record going back to June 8, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 15, 2026 | Pass | |
| May 7, 2026 | Pass | |
| April 30, 2026 | Fail | |
| September 8, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 29, 2025 | — | |
| February 19, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 7, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 10, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 6, 2024 | Fail | |
| March 20, 2024 | — | |
| January 19, 2024 | — | |
| December 20, 2023 | Fail |
The Barking Crab 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.
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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 July 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.