• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedFebruary 20, 2019 →
• address701 Centre St, Jamaica Plain 02130

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Is Bukhara Indian Bistro clean?

Bukhara Indian Bistro is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 20, 2019. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Bukhara Indian Bistro?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 20, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Hot Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded
• ⚠️Inadequate Lighting
• ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical

Bukhara Indian Bistro inspection and administrative history

Bukhara Indian Bistro has 60 inspections on record going back to April 2, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Bukhara Indian Bistro vs Jamaica Plain

Jamaica Plain runs 76% clean across 182 tracked restaurants — 133 clean, 22 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 182 spots Cooked tracks in Jamaica Plain, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 February 20, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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