Yankee Lobster

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJuly 31, 2020 →
• address23 Dry Dock Av, Boston 02210

Is Yankee Lobster clean?

Yankee Lobster is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 31, 2020. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Yankee Lobster?

Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on July 31, 2020. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.

Yankee Lobster inspection and administrative history

Yankee Lobster has 16 inspections on record going back to November 18, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Yankee Lobster vs South Boston Waterfront

South Boston Waterfront runs 93% clean across 389 tracked restaurants — 333 clean, 17 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 389 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston Waterfront, 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.

Read the Boston ratings guide →

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 July 31, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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