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Zuma Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 7, 2026
- address1 Dalton St, Boston 02115
Is Zuma Restaurant clean?
Zuma Restaurant is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 7, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Zuma Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Consumption of Animal Foods that are Raw Undercooked or Not Otherwise Processed to Eliminate Pathogens (Pf) • chu toro tar tartare on menu is served undercooked. Font size too small on disclosure statement. Provide font size 11 or above.Consumption of Animal Foods that are Raw Undercooked or Not Otherwise Processed to Eliminate Pathogens (Pf) • chu toro tar tartare on menu is served undercooked. Font size too small on disclosure statement. Provide font size 11 or above.
When was Zuma Restaurant last inspected?
Zuma Restaurant has 36 inspections on record going back to May 7, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 7, 2026 | Pass | |
| March 31, 2026 | Fail | |
| March 30, 2026 | Pass | |
| March 18, 2026 | Fail | |
| March 11, 2026 | Fail | |
| August 27, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 20, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 13, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 6, 2025 | Fail | |
| July 30, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 30, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 28, 2024 | Fail |
Zuma Restaurant vs Back Bay
Back Bay runs 81% clean across 519 tracked restaurants — 417 clean, 46 mid, 50 cooked.
Against the 519 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated April 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.