• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 30, 2019 →
• address28 Kingston St, Boston 02110

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Is The Good Life clean?

The Good Life is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 30, 2019. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at The Good Life?

Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 30, 2019. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.

The Good Life inspection and administrative history

The Good Life has 30 inspections on record going back to July 2, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

The Good Life vs Downtown

Downtown runs 92% clean across 993 tracked restaurants — 859 clean, 47 mid, 32 cooked.

Against the 993 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 October 30, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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