• last posted resultPass · April 30, 2024
• critical violations1
• last inspectedFebruary 7, 2025 →
• address85 Cummins Hw, Roslindale 02131

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Is Carolina Market clean?

Carolina Market is currently listed as closed by Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, as of its inspection on February 7, 2025. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected. The last result the city posted here was Pass on April 30, 2024, before the closure.

What did inspectors find at Carolina Market?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 7, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C)
• ⚠️Discarding or Reconditioning Unsafe Adulterated or Contaminated Food (P)critical
• ⚠️Cooling Heating and Holding Capacities-Equipment (Pf)
• ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf)
• ⚠️Maintaining Refuse Areas and Enclosures (C)
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
• ⚠️Handwashing Cleanser Availability (Pf)
• ⚠️Hand Drying Provision (Pf)
• ⚠️Handwashing Signage (C)
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf)
• ⚠️Cleaning of Plumbing Fixtures (C)

Carolina Market inspection and administrative history

Carolina Market has 6 inspections on record going back to January 10, 2023.

Carolina Market vs Roslindale

Roslindale runs 80% clean across 237 tracked restaurants — 180 clean, 25 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 237 spots Cooked tracks in Roslindale, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.

Other spots in Roslindale

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  clean · March 3, 2023
• ✓ Brother's Supermarket
  clean · October 20, 2025
• ✓ Fornax Bread
  clean · June 10, 2026
• ✓ Wing Stop
  clean · July 27, 2026
• ✓ Sweeties
  clean · September 25, 2025
• ✓ Chez Tata Restaurant
  clean · October 17, 2024

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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 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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