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Trident Booksellers And Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 16, 2026
- address338 Newbury St, Boston 02115
Is Trident Booksellers And Cafe clean?
Trident Booksellers And Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 16, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Trident Booksellers And Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 16, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Post allergen awareness poster in back of house for employeesPost allergen awareness poster in back of house for employees
When was Trident Booksellers And Cafe last inspected?
Trident Booksellers And Cafe has 74 inspections on record going back to May 3, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 16, 2026 | Pass | |
| October 24, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 2, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 25, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 10, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 12, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 5, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| July 12, 2023 | — | |
| December 29, 2022 | — | |
| October 13, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 5, 2022 | Fail |
Trident Booksellers And Cafe 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 April 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.