Umai Japanese Restaurant

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 11, 2026 →
• address224 Newbury St, Boston 02116

Is Umai Japanese Restaurant clean?

Umai Japanese Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 11, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Umai Japanese Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 11, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Backflow Prevention (P)critical
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings Utility Lines (C)

When was Umai Japanese Restaurant last inspected?

Umai Japanese Restaurant has 89 inspections on record going back to July 25, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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Umai Japanese Restaurant vs Back Bay

Back Bay runs 81% clean across 503 tracked restaurants — 405 clean, 51 mid, 42 cooked.

Against the 503 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 9% of them.

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• ✕ Clarendon Wine Co.
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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 August 11, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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