• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedDecember 12, 2011 →
• address2 Broad St, Boston 02109

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Is The Place clean?

The Place is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on December 12, 2011. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at The Place?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 12, 2011, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Container Labels
• ⚠️Test Kit Provided
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Mop Sink not Provided

The Place inspection and administrative history

The Place has 15 inspections on record going back to January 23, 2009. The 12 most recent are shown below.

The Place 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 4% 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 December 12, 2011. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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