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The Quiet Few
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 16, 2025
- address331 Sumner St, East Boston 02128
Is The Quiet Few clean?
The Quiet Few is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 16, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Quiet Few?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 16, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf) • Observed a large amount of fruit-like flies at the bar area. Provide an IPM report from a licenced exterminator.Controlling Pests (Pf) • Observed a large amount of fruit-like flies at the bar area. Provide an IPM report from a licenced exterminator.
When was The Quiet Few last inspected?
The Quiet Few has 13 inspections on record going back to March 22, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 16, 2025 | Pass | |
| June 9, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 12, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| August 24, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 1, 2022 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| November 29, 2021 | Pass | |
| April 8, 2021 | — | |
| October 23, 2020 | Pass | |
| October 16, 2020 | Fail |
The Quiet Few vs North End
North End runs 88% clean across 717 tracked restaurants — 579 clean, 37 mid, 40 cooked.
Against the 717 spots Cooked tracks in North End, 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 June 16, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.