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Trader Joe's No. 510
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 7, 2025
- address893 Boylston St, Boston 02115
Is Trader Joe's No. 510 clean?
Trader Joe's No. 510 is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 7, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Trader Joe's No. 510?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 7, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • PIC states the smoke detector outside the elevator is inoperable. Make all necessary repairs. Provide documentation from the alarm service company that all life safety alarms and mechanisms are operating properly. To be referred to ISD building.Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • PIC states the smoke detector outside the elevator is inoperable. Make all necessary repairs. Provide documentation from the alarm service company that all life safety alarms and mechanisms are operating properly. To be referred to ISD building.
- ⚠️(A) Ceasing Operations and Reporting (Pf) • Noxious odors are apparent throughout the store due to electrical fire that occurred in pallet jack located in freight elevator. Business to remain voluntarily closed per DCJ & TM by phone. Provide documentation from a professional cleaning company that all odors have been remediated prior to being allowed to reopen.(A) Ceasing Operations and Reporting (Pf) • Noxious odors are apparent throughout the store due to electrical fire that occurred in pallet jack located in freight elevator. Business to remain voluntarily closed per DCJ & TM by phone. Provide documentation from a professional cleaning company that all odors have been remediated prior to being allowed to reopen.
When was Trader Joe's No. 510 last inspected?
Trader Joe's No. 510 has 52 inspections on record going back to July 20, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 13, 2026 | — | |
| March 7, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 4, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| January 27, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 18, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| June 5, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| December 22, 2022 | Pass | |
| April 6, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 30, 2022 | Fail |
Trader Joe's No. 510 vs Back Bay
Back Bay runs 81% clean across 519 tracked restaurants — 417 clean, 46 mid, 50 cooked.
Against the 519 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 March 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.