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The Smoke Shop
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 10, 2025
- address35 Lewis St, East Boston 02128
Is The Smoke Shop clean?
The Smoke Shop is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 10, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Smoke Shop?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 10, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Wall and Ceiling Coverings and Coatings (C) • Wall at the side of cooking line oven damaged with loose tiles. Repair and clean properly.Wall and Ceiling Coverings and Coatings (C) • Wall at the side of cooking line oven damaged with loose tiles. Repair and clean properly.
When was The Smoke Shop last inspected?
The Smoke Shop has 9 inspections on record going back to June 26, 2023.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 12, 2025 | — | |
| April 10, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 28, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 14, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 6, 2025 | Fail | |
| June 6, 2024 | Pass | |
| May 30, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| June 26, 2023 | Pass |
The Smoke Shop 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 April 10, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.