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The Blackthorn Pub
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 5, 2014
- address471 W Broadway, South Boston 02127
Is The Blackthorn Pub clean?
The Blackthorn Pub is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 5, 2014. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Blackthorn Pub?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on May 5, 2014. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was The Blackthorn Pub last inspected?
The Blackthorn Pub has 15 inspections on record going back to May 6, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| May 5, 2014 | Pass | |
| December 30, 2013 | — | |
| December 2, 2013 | — | |
| December 30, 2012 | — | |
| November 6, 2012 | Pass | |
| June 11, 2012 | Pass | |
| June 28, 2011 | Pass | |
| June 21, 2011 | Fail | |
| January 19, 2010 | Pass | |
| January 11, 2010 | Fail | |
| August 14, 2009 | Pass |
The Blackthorn Pub vs South Boston
South Boston runs 91% clean across 192 tracked restaurants — 163 clean, 9 mid, 8 cooked.
Against the 192 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 May 5, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.