Cooked?
Winter St. Express
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 18, 2020
- address31 Winter St, Boston 02108
Is Winter St. Express clean?
Winter St. Express is currently listed as closed by Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, as of its inspection on February 18, 2020. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.
What did inspectors find at Winter St. Express?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on February 18, 2020. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Winter St. Express last inspected?
Winter St. Express has 15 inspections on record going back to May 18, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 14, 2021 | closed by the city | |
| February 18, 2020 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2019 | — | |
| February 8, 2018 | Pass | |
| August 4, 2017 | Pass | |
| January 6, 2017 | Pass | |
| December 14, 2016 | Fail | |
| December 30, 2014 | Pass | |
| December 30, 2013 | — | |
| December 24, 2013 | Pass | |
| December 30, 2012 | — | |
| November 21, 2012 | — |
Winter St. Express vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 February 18, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.