Cooked?The Urban Art Bar
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 25, 2014 →
- address163 Old Colony Av, South Boston 02127
Is The Urban Art Bar clean?
The Urban Art Bar is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 25, 2014. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Urban Art Bar?
No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 2 code checks as passed on February 25, 2014.
The Urban Art Bar inspection and administrative history
The Urban Art Bar has 5 inspections on record going back to February 25, 2013.
March 15, 2022 Inspection not required
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →February 25, 2014 Pass
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View full inspection →February 6, 2014 Fail
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View full inspection →December 30, 2013 Inspection not required
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View full inspection →February 25, 2013 Pass
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View full inspection →The Urban Art Bar vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 86% clean across 297 tracked restaurants — 245 clean, 22 mid, 19 cooked.
Against the 297 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 February 25, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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