Boston Restaurant Health-Code Violations: The 2016 List

The Boston Business Journal has combed through the city's health inspection database to compile a list of the Boston restaurants slapped with health code violations in 2016, broken down by neighborhood.

We've reported on some of these before, but others surprised us.

The top "Level 3" violators? Beacon Hill Hotel and Bistro, Dig Inn, the 115 Stuart Street Panera Bread and Charlestown's Sweet Rice, according to the Business Journal.

As the Business Journal has taken care to note, many of the violations are not as scandalous as they might sound, once you include context. One restaurant, for example, got dinged by health inspectors for how it worded the health warning at the bottom of its menu. Others seem to be just as gross as you'd fear.

The Boston Business Journal has the full story and the list for 2016 here, which you can search by neighborhood.

To further ease the anxious foodie's mind, Boston recently established a system of health inspection letter grades for restaurants, similar to New York City. Here's how that works.

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