• resultFail
• critical violations3
• last inspectedJuly 31, 2018 →
• address224 Boston St, Dorchester 02125

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Is 224 Boston Street clean?

224 Boston Street is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 31, 2018. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at 224 Boston Street?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 31, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Cold Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Separation Segregation Cross Contaminationcritical
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical
• ⚠️Mop Sink not Provided

224 Boston Street inspection and administrative history

224 Boston Street has 23 inspections on record going back to September 24, 2009. The 12 most recent are shown below.

224 Boston Street vs Roxbury

Roxbury runs 83% clean across 689 tracked restaurants — 542 clean, 66 mid, 48 cooked.

Against the 689 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 1% of them.

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• ✓ Dunkin Donuts Blue Hill Ave
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• ? Hollywood Video No. 021-122
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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 July 31, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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