• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedApril 1, 2026 →
• address315 Adams St, Dorchester 02122

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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.

Twelve Bens inspection and administrative history

Twelve Bens has 54 inspections on record going back to February 6, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Twelve Bens vs Dorchester

Dorchester runs 85% clean across 525 tracked restaurants — 429 clean, 33 mid, 44 cooked.

Against the 525 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 15% of them.

Other spots in Dorchester

• ✕ Sonny's Restaurant
  cooked · December 2, 2015
• ? Adams St Shell
  not rated · December 30, 2012
• ✕ Adams Corner Inc.
  mid · February 10, 2016
• ✓ Adams Fish Mkt
  clean · August 19, 2026
• ✕ Gerard's Sandwich Shop
  cooked · February 12, 2016
• ✓ China Sky Restaurant
  clean · June 28, 2024

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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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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.

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