Cooked?
Columbus Market
- resultFail
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 8, 2012
- address1909 Columbus Av, Roxbury 02119
Is Columbus Market clean?
Columbus Market is currently listed as closed by Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, as of its inspection on March 8, 2012. 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.
What did inspectors find at Columbus Market?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on March 8, 2012. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Columbus Market last inspected?
Columbus Market has 7 inspections on record going back to July 2, 2010.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 9, 2012 | closed by the city | |
| March 8, 2012 | Fail | |
| February 29, 2012 | Fail | |
| October 6, 2011 | — | |
| April 29, 2011 | — | |
| December 1, 2010 | — | |
| July 2, 2010 | — |
Columbus 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 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.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated March 8, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.