• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedNovember 6, 2019 →
• address411 Chelsea St, East Boston 02128

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Is Bar Medallo clean?

Bar Medallo is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 6, 2019. 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 Bar Medallo?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 6, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Where to Wash (Pf)
• ⚠️(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf)
• ⚠️Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C)
• ⚠️Manual and Mechanical Warewashing Equipment Chemical Sanitization-Temperature pH Concentration and Hardness (P)critical
• ⚠️Handwashing Sinks-Location and Placement (Pf)
• ⚠️Floor and Wall Junctures Coved and Enclosed or Sealed (C)

Bar Medallo inspection and administrative history

Bar Medallo has 17 inspections on record going back to March 24, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Bar Medallo vs East Boston

East Boston runs 91% clean across 526 tracked restaurants — 465 clean, 20 mid, 24 cooked.

Against the 526 spots Cooked tracks in East Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 November 6, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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