Zaz Restaurant

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 8, 2025
• address1230 River St, Hyde Park 02136

Is Zaz Restaurant clean?

Zaz Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 8, 2025. 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 Zaz Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 8, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (P) • BASEMENT-Observed a pipe leaking under the mop sink. Contact licensed plumber to repair leak ensure to pull a permit. BASEMENT-Observed a leak at the ice machine and stagnant water on the floor. Repair leak and remove stagnant water. Remove ice machine from storage area away from furnace. Cap all pipes in the basement that are open.critical
  System Maintained in Good Repair (P) • BASEMENT-Observed a pipe leaking under the mop sink. Contact licensed plumber to repair leak ensure to pull a permit. BASEMENT-Observed a leak at the ice machine and stagnant water on the floor. Repair leak and remove stagnant water. Remove ice machine from storage area away from furnace. Cap all pipes in the basement that are open.
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Lower basement- Repair false floor at the bottom of the basement stairs behind toliet behind and infront of 2 door reach in. Replace missing ceiling tiles and repair any holes in the basement walls/ceiling. Provide missing light bulbs in the basement. Clean inside the 2 door counter top to remove old dropping. Remove rug and repair any holes in the floor. Clean outside wall across from the smoker. Clean to remove grease build up.
  Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Lower basement- Repair false floor at the bottom of the basement stairs behind toliet behind and infront of 2 door reach in. Replace missing ceiling tiles and repair any holes in the basement walls/ceiling. Provide missing light bulbs in the basement. Clean inside the 2 door counter top to remove old dropping. Remove rug and repair any holes in the floor. Clean outside wall across from the smoker. Clean to remove grease build up.
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf) • Owner was able to provide a pest report at today's inspection. This was the exterminators first time at the establishment new company. He is scheduled to come out on 9/8. Provide a detailed IPM report. Please have him treat the burrows outside on the hill address all the holes in the wall leading to the other businesses inspect the false floor in the basement. Ensure the all the door sweeps are rodent protection door sweeps recommend more frequent inspections. SMOKER- Clean interior and exterior of the smoker the inside of the roof and all structure around the smoker the table next to the smoker and the grounds around the smoker to remove all the heavy build up. GREASE CONTAINER- remove the grease from the top of the grease container. Ensure that the smoker and the grease container is being cleaned after every use to ensure no grease is being left. This will help with the heavy rat activity. Please remove the table on the outside hill near the burrow. Please continue to clean outback and ensure that all the vegetation has been cut back.
  Controlling Pests (Pf) • Owner was able to provide a pest report at today's inspection. This was the exterminators first time at the establishment new company. He is scheduled to come out on 9/8. Provide a detailed IPM report. Please have him treat the burrows outside on the hill address all the holes in the wall leading to the other businesses inspect the false floor in the basement. Ensure the all the door sweeps are rodent protection door sweeps recommend more frequent inspections. SMOKER- Clean interior and exterior of the smoker the inside of the roof and all structure around the smoker the table next to the smoker and the grounds around the smoker to remove all the heavy build up. GREASE CONTAINER- remove the grease from the top of the grease container. Ensure that the smoker and the grease container is being cleaned after every use to ensure no grease is being left. This will help with the heavy rat activity. Please remove the table on the outside hill near the burrow. Please continue to clean outback and ensure that all the vegetation has been cut back.
• ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • Basement areas and all rooms. Clean organize and provide proper storage 6 inches off the floor. Remove any unnessary items. Upstairs function room- remove any unnessary items in rest room and function room/prep room. Clean and organize. • Observed trash and debris around the dumpster. Clean to remove all trash and debris.
  Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • Basement areas and all rooms. Clean organize and provide proper storage 6 inches off the floor. Remove any unnessary items. Upstairs function room- remove any unnessary items in rest room and function room/prep room. Clean and organize. • Observed trash and debris around the dumpster. Clean to remove all trash and debris.

When was Zaz Restaurant last inspected?

Zaz Restaurant has 84 inspections on record going back to September 6, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Zaz Restaurant vs Hyde Park

Hyde Park runs 77% clean across 181 tracked restaurants — 132 clean, 20 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 181 spots Cooked tracks in Hyde Park, this one comes out cleaner than 7% of them.

Other spots in Hyde Park

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  mid · February 27, 2023
• ✕ Domino's Pizza (695 Truman Pkwy)
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• ✓ Will On The Green No. 2
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• ✓ Tommy's Pizzeria
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• ✓ G & S Auto Sales & Service
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• ✓ The Wright Grill @ Geo. Wright Golf Course
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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 September 8, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.