Cooked?556 Riverside Market
- resultFail
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 3, 2016 →
- address556R River St, Mattapan 02126
Is 556 Riverside Market clean?
556 Riverside Market is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 3, 2016. 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 556 Riverside Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 3, 2016, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Cleancritical
- 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleanedImproper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
- ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
556 Riverside Market inspection and administrative history
556 Riverside Market has 7 inspections on record going back to April 29, 2016.
June 13, 2022 Inspection not required
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →March 15, 2022 Inspection not required
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →April 17, 2017 Temporary permit action
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →January 31, 2017 Administrative record filed
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →May 10, 2016 Administrative record filed
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →May 3, 2016 Fail
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View full inspection →April 29, 2016 Fail
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View full inspection →556 Riverside Market vs Mattapan
Mattapan runs 76% clean across 294 tracked restaurants — 211 clean, 40 mid, 25 cooked.
Against the 294 spots Cooked tracks in Mattapan, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 May 3, 2016. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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