• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedApril 24, 2018 →
• address344 Hanover St, Boston 02113

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Is Cantina Italiana clean?

Cantina Italiana is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 24, 2018. 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 Cantina Italiana?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 24, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Adequate Handwashing/Where/When/Howcritical
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors

Cantina Italiana inspection and administrative history

Cantina Italiana has 29 inspections on record going back to April 28, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Cantina Italiana vs North End

North End runs 91% clean across 698 tracked restaurants — 578 clean, 33 mid, 26 cooked.

Against the 698 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 April 24, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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