Bonanza Market is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 26, 2010. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Bonanza Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 26, 2010, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
⚠️Approved Source • Frozen bananas made into a dessert on a stick are being made on site to sell for retail.Discontinue and only sell food products that are pre-packaged from a licensed wholesalercritical
Approved Source • Frozen bananas made into a dessert on a stick are being made on site to sell for retail.Discontinue and only sell food products that are pre-packaged from a licensed wholesaler
⚠️Safe Food Handeling Instructions • Raw frozen whole chickens with no safe handling labels. Provide
Safe Food Handeling Instructions • Raw frozen whole chickens with no safe handling labels. Provide
⚠️Food Protection • Keep all food product elevated off the floor during storage
Food Protection • Keep all food product elevated off the floor during storage
⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces • Missing cover for compressor on freezer. Replace or repair as needed
Non-Food Contact Surfaces • Missing cover for compressor on freezer. Replace or repair as needed
⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • Clean bottom of freezer from old food stains and soils
Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • Clean bottom of freezer from old food stains and soils
⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage • Discontinue use of towel to dry hands in the restroom and provide paper towels or some other method to dry hands properly
Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage • Discontinue use of towel to dry hands in the restroom and provide paper towels or some other method to dry hands properly
⚠️Labeled Common Name • Cheese in the deli case with no labels to identify product properly.Ask supplier to provide labels for productcritical
Labeled Common Name • Cheese in the deli case with no labels to identify product properly.Ask supplier to provide labels for product
When was Bonanza Market last inspected?
Bonanza Market has 5 inspections on record going back to July 1, 2009.
date
result
score
February 26, 2010
Pass
February 19, 2010
Fail
July 16, 2009
Pass
July 8, 2009
Fail
July 1, 2009
Fail
Bonanza Market vs East Boston
East Boston runs 92% clean across 529 tracked restaurants — 472 clean, 19 mid, 21 cooked.
Against the 529 spots Cooked tracks in East Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 7% of them.
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 February 26, 2010. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.