Cooked?
Townsman
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 20, 2018
- address118 Kingston St, Boston 02111
Is Townsman clean?
Townsman is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 20, 2018. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Townsman?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 20, 2018. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Townsman last inspected?
Townsman has 12 inspections on record going back to February 19, 2015.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| October 5, 2018 | closed by the city | |
| April 20, 2018 | Pass | |
| August 1, 2017 | Pass | |
| September 28, 2016 | Pass | |
| May 26, 2016 | Pass | |
| September 16, 2015 | Pass | |
| September 9, 2015 | Fail | |
| May 29, 2015 | Pass | |
| May 28, 2015 | — | |
| February 26, 2015 | Pass | |
| February 19, 2015 | Fail |
Townsman vs Downtown
Downtown runs 89% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 851 clean, 49 mid, 61 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 11% of them.
Other spots in Downtown
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 20, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.