Canary Square

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 5, 2022 →
• address435 S Huntington Av, Jamaica Plain 02130

Is Canary Square clean?

Canary Square is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 5, 2022. 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 Canary Square?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 5, 2022, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A) (B) and (C)(1) (4)-(16) Demonstration (Pf)
• ⚠️In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C)
• ⚠️Food Storage Prohibited Areas (C)
• ⚠️Cooling (P)critical
• ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf)
• ⚠️Variance Requirement (Pf)
• ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C)
• ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf)

Canary Square inspection and administrative history

Canary Square has 35 inspections on record going back to November 17, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 2 of these 6 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Canary Square vs Mission Hill

Mission Hill runs 77% clean across 245 tracked restaurants — 180 clean, 28 mid, 27 cooked.

Against the 245 spots Cooked tracks in Mission Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 1% of them.

Other spots in Mission Hill

• ✓ Sushi Station
  clean · May 8, 2014
• ✓ J P Convenience Store
  clean · March 12, 2024
• ✓ Tres Gatos Cafe
  clean · July 1, 2026
• ✕ Kennedy Fried Chicken
  cooked · November 25, 2013
• ✓ Wok 'n Talk
  clean · November 3, 2022
• ✕ Slice O'pie
  cooked · April 9, 2012

See every restaurant inspection in Mission Hill →

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.

Read the Boston ratings guide →

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 October 5, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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