• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJanuary 16, 2025 →
• address1636 Blue Hill Av, Mattapan 02126

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Is Brother Deli Restaurant clean?

Brother Deli Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 16, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Brother Deli Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 16, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Packaged and Unpackaged Food-Separation Packaging and Segregation (C)
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Use Limitation (C)
• ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
• ⚠️Intensity-Lighting (C)
• ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)

Brother Deli Restaurant inspection and administrative history

Brother Deli Restaurant has 74 inspections on record going back to August 4, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Brother Deli Restaurant 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.

Other spots in Mattapan

• ✓ Avenue Tavern
  clean · September 3, 2009
• ✓ Blue Hill Fruit Market
  clean · June 20, 2011
• ✓ Mattapan Fish Market
  clean · August 10, 2011
• ✓ The Friendly Community Market
  clean · February 18, 2009
• ✓ Mars Farmers Market
  clean · April 29, 2013
• ✓ Burger King
  clean · August 24, 2026

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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 January 16, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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