The Joint

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 14, 2026 →
• address605 Centre St, Jamaica Plain 02130

Is The Joint clean?

The Joint is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 14, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at The Joint?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 14, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C)
• ⚠️Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C)
• ⚠️(A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P)critical
• ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C)
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf)

The Joint inspection and administrative history

The Joint has 33 inspections on record going back to March 6, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 4 of these 10 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

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The Joint vs Jamaica Plain

Jamaica Plain runs 76% clean across 182 tracked restaurants — 133 clean, 22 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 182 spots Cooked tracks in Jamaica Plain, this one comes out cleaner than 9% of them.

Other spots in Jamaica Plain

• ✓ Green Basket Market
  clean · May 10, 2022
• ✓ Sweet Rice
  clean · July 29, 2026
• ✓ Monumental Market
  clean · May 6, 2026
• ✓ Simpli Bar & Bites
  clean · November 19, 2021
• ✓ Casabe Kitchen
  clean · May 13, 2019
• ✓ Bukhara Indian Bistro
  clean · May 13, 2022

See every restaurant inspection in Jamaica Plain →

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.

Read the Boston ratings guide →

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 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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