• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 23, 2026 →
• address545 Boylston St, Boston 02116

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Is Yamato Ii clean?

Yamato Ii is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 23, 2026. 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 Yamato Ii?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 23, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (P)critical
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)

Yamato Ii inspection and administrative history

Yamato Ii has 108 inspections on record going back to June 24, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 2 of these 9 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Yamato Ii vs Back Bay

Back Bay runs 81% clean across 505 tracked restaurants — 406 clean, 49 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 505 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 October 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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