• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedFebruary 12, 2024 →
• address79 Hancock St, Dorchester 02125

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Is Cq Bbq & Taco clean?

Cq Bbq & Taco is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 12, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Cq Bbq & Taco?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 12, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C)
• ⚠️flagged at inspection
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
• ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)

Cq Bbq & Taco inspection and administrative history

Cq Bbq & Taco has 16 inspections on record going back to October 16, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 2 of these 8 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Cq Bbq & Taco vs Roxbury

Roxbury runs 83% clean across 693 tracked restaurants — 549 clean, 63 mid, 48 cooked.

Against the 693 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 13% 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 February 12, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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