• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedOctober 18, 2017 →
• address1728 Dorchester Av, Dorchester 02124

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Is Canton House Restaurant clean?

Canton House Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 18, 2017. 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 Canton House Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 18, 2017, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Clean Cloths Hair Restraint
• ⚠️Inadequate Facilities/Cooling Methods
• ⚠️Food Thermometers Provided
• ⚠️PHF's Properly Thawed
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Dishwashng Facilities
• ⚠️Test Kit Provided
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Cleancritical
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• ⚠️Adequate Number Frequency Vermin Proof
• ⚠️Outside Storage Improperly Maintained
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Premises Maintained
• ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical

Canton House Restaurant inspection and administrative history

Canton House Restaurant has 25 inspections on record going back to July 26, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Canton House Restaurant 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 0% 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 October 18, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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