• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedNovember 10, 2016 →
• address1221 Dorchester Av, Dorchester 02125

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Is Cafe 1221 clean?

Cafe 1221 is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 10, 2016. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Cafe 1221?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 9 code checks as passed on November 10, 2016.

Cafe 1221 inspection and administrative history

Cafe 1221 has 19 inspections on record going back to March 8, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Cafe 1221 vs Dorchester

Dorchester runs 85% clean across 525 tracked restaurants — 429 clean, 33 mid, 44 cooked.

Against the 525 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 10, 2016. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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