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The Merchant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 28, 2026
- address60 Franklin St, Boston 02110
Is The Merchant clean?
The Merchant is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 28, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Merchant?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 28, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was The Merchant last inspected?
The Merchant has 33 inspections on record going back to February 21, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 28, 2026 | Pass | |
| February 19, 2026 | Pass | |
| February 12, 2026 | Fail | |
| October 22, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 15, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| May 17, 2023 | — | |
| May 10, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| September 7, 2022 | — | |
| June 13, 2022 | — |
The Merchant vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 April 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.