Cooked?
The Playwright
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 19, 2026
- address654 E Broadway, South Boston 02127
Is The Playwright clean?
The Playwright is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 19, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Playwright?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Post the current 2026 Health permit for the food establishment in a conspicuous place for the consumer to viewPost the current 2026 Health permit for the food establishment in a conspicuous place for the consumer to view
When was The Playwright last inspected?
The Playwright has 16 inspections on record going back to March 15, 2024. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 19, 2026 | Pass | |
| February 17, 2026 | Fail | |
| February 10, 2026 | Pass | |
| February 3, 2026 | Fail | |
| November 26, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 19, 2025 | Fail | |
| June 5, 2025 | Pass | |
| June 3, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 28, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 6, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 27, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 31, 2024 | — |
The Playwright vs South Boston
South Boston runs 91% clean across 192 tracked restaurants — 163 clean, 9 mid, 8 cooked.
Against the 192 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 February 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.