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Top Asian Grocery
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 13, 2026
- address5 Knapp St, Boston 02111
Is Top Asian Grocery clean?
Top Asian Grocery is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 13, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Top Asian Grocery?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 13, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events (Pf) • Provide a vomit/diarrhea clean up kit on site (procedures to be emailed to the PIC)Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events (Pf) • Provide a vomit/diarrhea clean up kit on site (procedures to be emailed to the PIC)
- ⚠️(A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C) • The posted certified food managers certificate has expired.Provide a current certificate from a full time employee.(A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C) • The posted certified food managers certificate has expired.Provide a current certificate from a full time employee.
- ⚠️Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C) • Provide covers for the bulk items in the retail section.Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C) • Provide covers for the bulk items in the retail section.
- ⚠️Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C) • The wall above the rear retail shelving is damaged with peeling paint.Removed damaged paint/resufaceSurface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C) • The wall above the rear retail shelving is damaged with peeling paint.Removed damaged paint/resuface
When was Top Asian Grocery last inspected?
Top Asian Grocery has 13 inspections on record going back to July 12, 2021. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 13, 2026 | Pass | |
| April 6, 2026 | Fail | |
| August 15, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 8, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 18, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 10, 2024 | Fail | |
| April 7, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 3, 2023 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| March 7, 2022 | Pass | |
| February 28, 2022 | Fail | |
| July 15, 2021 | Pass |
Top Asian Grocery vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 85% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 252 clean, 22 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% of them.
Other spots in Chinatown
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 13, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.