• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJune 27, 2018 →
• address21 Beacon St, Boston 02108

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Is Zen Restaurant clean?

Zen Restaurant is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 27, 2018. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Zen Restaurant?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 10 code checks as passed on June 27, 2018.

Zen Restaurant inspection and administrative history

Zen Restaurant has 58 inspections on record going back to April 3, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Zen Restaurant vs Beacon Hill

Beacon Hill runs 87% clean across 147 tracked restaurants — 123 clean, 9 mid, 10 cooked.

Against the 147 spots Cooked tracks in Beacon Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 13% 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 June 27, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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