Dirty Water Dough Company

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedDecember 3, 2025
• address20 Maverick St, East Boston 02128

Is Dirty Water Dough Company clean?

Dirty Water Dough Company is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on December 3, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Dirty Water Dough Company?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 3, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Assignment (Pf) • Noted a certified PIC not on site during inspection.Provide
  Assignment (Pf) • Noted a certified PIC not on site during inspection.Provide
• ⚠️Packaged and Unpackaged Food-Separation Packaging and Segregation (P) • Noted raw hamburger in contact with RTE foods.Discontinue and seperate Raw foods from RTEcritical
  Packaged and Unpackaged Food-Separation Packaging and Segregation (P) • Noted raw hamburger in contact with RTE foods.Discontinue and seperate Raw foods from RTE
• ⚠️Standards of Identity (C) • Missing labels on the squeeze bottles.Provide
  Standards of Identity (C) • Missing labels on the squeeze bottles.Provide
• ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Noted freezer chests near the cookline and in the basement heavily soiled with ice.Clean with frequency
  (A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Noted freezer chests near the cookline and in the basement heavily soiled with ice.Clean with frequency
• ⚠️Using a Handwashing Sink-Operation and Maintenance (Pf) • Noted utensils stored in the hand washing sink.Discontinue
  Using a Handwashing Sink-Operation and Maintenance (Pf) • Noted utensils stored in the hand washing sink.Discontinue
• ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (P) • Provide drain plugs for the 3 bay sink.critical
  System Maintained in Good Repair (P) • Provide drain plugs for the 3 bay sink.
• ⚠️Using Dressing Rooms and Lockers (C) • Noted several staff personal items stored in contact with single use items in the basement.Discontinue and provide lockers for staff
  Using Dressing Rooms and Lockers (C) • Noted several staff personal items stored in contact with single use items in the basement.Discontinue and provide lockers for staff

When was Dirty Water Dough Company last inspected?

Dirty Water Dough Company has 22 inspections on record going back to October 25, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Dirty Water Dough Company vs North End

North End runs 88% clean across 717 tracked restaurants — 579 clean, 37 mid, 40 cooked.

Against the 717 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 December 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.