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The Circle Pizza & Tavern
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 15, 2026
- address354 Chestnut Hill Av, Brighton 02135
Is The Circle Pizza & Tavern clean?
The Circle Pizza & Tavern 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 Circle Pizza & Tavern?
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 Circle Pizza & Tavern last inspected?
The Circle Pizza & Tavern has 23 inspections on record going back to January 2, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 15, 2026 | Pass | |
| October 16, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 7, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 10, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 3, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| October 12, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 5, 2023 | Fail | |
| September 28, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| September 14, 2022 | Pass |
The Circle Pizza & Tavern vs Brighton
Brighton runs 83% clean across 486 tracked restaurants — 393 clean, 43 mid, 35 cooked.
Against the 486 spots Cooked tracks in Brighton, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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.