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Dogwood Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 28, 2021
- address3712 Washington St, Jamaica Plain 02130
Is Dogwood Cafe clean?
Dogwood Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 28, 2021. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Dogwood Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 28, 2021, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • Hood sticker observed expired on 8.25.21.Provide proper hood cleaning from a licensed company. Post new sticker. PIC stating appt is on 10.26.21 and will forward Email confirmation to the Health Department. Establishment using a wood fired pizza oven.No visible hood sticker for the oven.Will refer to BFD inspector Upon re-inspection PIC stating wood fired pizza oven scheduled for cleaning 10/19/21 and monthly moving forward. Cook line hood scheduled for 10/26/21 PIC instructed to forward pictures of both stickersCleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • Hood sticker observed expired on 8.25.21.Provide proper hood cleaning from a licensed company. Post new sticker. PIC stating appt is on 10.26.21 and will forward Email confirmation to the Health Department. Establishment using a wood fired pizza oven.No visible hood sticker for the oven.Will refer to BFD inspector Upon re-inspection PIC stating wood fired pizza oven scheduled for cleaning 10/19/21 and monthly moving forward. Cook line hood scheduled for 10/26/21 PIC instructed to forward pictures of both stickers
When was Dogwood Cafe last inspected?
Dogwood Cafe has 48 inspections on record going back to January 25, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| June 12, 2023 | closed by the city | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| October 20, 2022 | — | |
| October 20, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| October 28, 2021 | Pass | |
| October 15, 2021 | Fail | |
| October 7, 2021 | Fail | |
| November 19, 2020 | Pass | |
| November 10, 2020 | Fail | |
| December 13, 2019 | — |
Dogwood Cafe vs Jamaica Plain
Jamaica Plain runs 77% clean across 189 tracked restaurants — 139 clean, 22 mid, 20 cooked.
Against the 189 spots Cooked tracks in Jamaica Plain, this one comes out cleaner than 23% 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 October 28, 2021. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.