Cooked?Witch!T
- resultFail
- critical violations7
- last inspectedJanuary 12, 2018 →
- address244 Newbury St, Boston 02116
Is Witch!T clean?
Witch!T is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 12, 2018. Inspectors wrote up 7 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Witch!T?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 12, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Labeling of Ingredientscritical
- ⚠️Cold Holdingcritical
- ⚠️Food Protection
- ⚠️Food Utensil Storage
- ⚠️Good Hygienic Practicescritical
- ⚠️Clean Cloths Hair Restraint
- ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
- ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
- ⚠️Dishwashng Facilities
- ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Cleancritical
- ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
- ⚠️Clean Equipment & Utensils Storage
- ⚠️Sewage and Waste Water
- ⚠️Installed and Maintained
- ⚠️Location Accessiblecritical
- ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
- ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
- 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleanedImproper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
- ⚠️Separation/Sanitizer Criteriacritical
- ⚠️Premises Maintained
- ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical
Witch!T inspection and administrative history
Witch!T has 3 inspections on record going back to January 11, 2018.
March 15, 2022 Inspection not required
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →January 12, 2018 Fail
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View full inspection →January 11, 2018 Pass
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View full inspection →Witch!T 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 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.
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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 January 12, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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