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The Good Life
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 30, 2019
- address28 Kingston St, Boston 02111
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.
When was The Good Life last inspected?
The Good Life has 30 inspections on record going back to July 2, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| March 31, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| October 30, 2019 | Pass | |
| April 22, 2019 | Pass | |
| July 11, 2018 | Pass | |
| October 4, 2017 | Pass | |
| May 8, 2017 | Pass | |
| June 3, 2016 | Pass | |
| December 17, 2014 | Pass | |
| December 10, 2014 | Fail |
The Good Life vs Downtown
Downtown runs 89% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 851 clean, 49 mid, 61 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 October 30, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.