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Twelve Bens
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 1, 2026
- address315 Adams St, Dorchester 02122
Is Twelve Bens clean?
Twelve Bens is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 1, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Twelve Bens?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 1, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Twelve Bens last inspected?
Twelve Bens has 54 inspections on record going back to February 6, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 1, 2026 | Pass | |
| August 27, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 8, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 11, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 17, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 14, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 7, 2023 | Fail | |
| June 28, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| January 25, 2022 | Pass | |
| July 13, 2021 | Pass | |
| March 24, 2021 | Pass |
Twelve Bens vs Dorchester
Dorchester runs 85% clean across 542 tracked restaurants — 445 clean, 31 mid, 47 cooked.
Against the 542 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.