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Columbia Rd. Market
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 19, 2024
- address387 Columbia Rd, Dorchester 02125
Is Columbia Rd. Market clean?
Columbia Rd. Market is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 19, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Columbia Rd. Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 19, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Characteristics-Materials for Construction and Repair (C) • Remove cardboard boxes as liner and provide cleanible surface. Repair rust on refrigerator storage shelving.Characteristics-Materials for Construction and Repair (C) • Remove cardboard boxes as liner and provide cleanible surface. Repair rust on refrigerator storage shelving.
- ⚠️(B) and (C) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (C) • Clean tops of canned food to remove dust.(B) and (C) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (C) • Clean tops of canned food to remove dust.
- ⚠️Outer Openings Protected (C) • Observed opening at front door repair.Outer Openings Protected (C) • Observed opening at front door repair.
When was Columbia Rd. Market last inspected?
Columbia Rd. Market has 64 inspections on record going back to June 20, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| March 19, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 11, 2024 | Fail | |
| August 31, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 25, 2023 | Fail | |
| February 1, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 25, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| October 27, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 20, 2022 | Fail | |
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| May 10, 2022 | Pass |
Columbia Rd. Market vs Roxbury
Roxbury runs 83% clean across 708 tracked restaurants — 559 clean, 69 mid, 49 cooked.
Against the 708 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated March 19, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.