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Walden Local Butcher
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 13, 2026
- address316 Shawmut Av, Roxbury 02118
Is Walden Local Butcher clean?
Walden Local Butcher is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 13, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Walden Local Butcher?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on January 13, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Walden Local Butcher last inspected?
Walden Local Butcher has 28 inspections on record going back to October 24, 2017. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 13, 2026 | Pass | |
| December 16, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 24, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 6, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 9, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 2, 2024 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| November 20, 2023 | — | |
| June 30, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | Pass |
Walden Local Butcher vs South End
South End runs 81% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 498 clean, 63 mid, 54 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 20% 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 January 13, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.