• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedDecember 2, 2014 →
• address172 Brighton Av, Allston 02134

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Is Wise Guys clean?

Wise Guys is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on December 2, 2014. 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 Wise Guys?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 2, 2014, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️PIC Knowledgecritical

Wise Guys inspection and administrative history

Wise Guys has 9 inspections on record going back to March 22, 2013.

Wise Guys vs Allston

Allston runs 88% clean across 492 tracked restaurants — 414 clean, 34 mid, 24 cooked.

Against the 492 spots Cooked tracks in Allston, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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.

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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 December 2, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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