Cooked?
Best Liquors
- resultFail
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 7, 2016
- address1088 Dorchester Av, Dorchester 02125
Is Best Liquors clean?
Best Liquors is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 7, 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 Best Liquors?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 7, 2016, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️PIC Performing Duties • 8.303.20 Conditions of issuance for non-payment of2016 Health Permit.criticalPIC Performing Duties • 8.303.20 Conditions of issuance for non-payment of2016 Health Permit.
When was Best Liquors last inspected?
Best Liquors has 11 inspections on record going back to May 8, 2008.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| March 7, 2016 | Fail | |
| May 29, 2014 | Pass | |
| April 10, 2013 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2012 | — | |
| August 26, 2011 | Pass | |
| April 26, 2010 | Pass | |
| June 8, 2009 | — | |
| May 16, 2008 | Pass | |
| May 8, 2008 | Fail |
Best Liquors vs Dorchester
Dorchester runs 85% clean across 542 tracked restaurants — 445 clean, 31 mid, 47 cooked.
Against the 542 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 March 7, 2016. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.