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Vine & Barley
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 26, 2026
- address326 Sumner St, East Boston 02128
Is Vine & Barley clean?
Vine & Barley is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 26, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Vine & Barley?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on May 26, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Vine & Barley last inspected?
Vine & Barley has 36 inspections on record going back to January 6, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2026 | Pass | |
| December 4, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 30, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 5, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 12, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 7, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 17, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 23, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 22, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| November 15, 2021 | Pass | |
| June 11, 2021 | Pass |
Vine & Barley vs North End
North End runs 88% clean across 717 tracked restaurants — 579 clean, 37 mid, 40 cooked.
Against the 717 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 May 26, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.