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Tora Ramen
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 26, 2025
- address99 Harrison Av, Boston 02111
Is Tora Ramen clean?
Tora Ramen is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 26, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Tora Ramen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 26, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • Hood sticker observed expired. Schedule cleaning appointment.Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • Hood sticker observed expired. Schedule cleaning appointment.
When was Tora Ramen last inspected?
Tora Ramen has 24 inspections on record going back to August 26, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 26, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 10, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 3, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 19, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 11, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 11, 2024 | Pass | |
| September 3, 2024 | Fail | |
| February 12, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 5, 2024 | Fail | |
| June 5, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 24, 2023 | Fail | |
| March 2, 2023 | Pass |
Tora Ramen 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 September 26, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.