Don Tequeno Y Dona Arepa

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 14, 2026 →
• address401A Centre St, Jamaica Plain 02130

Is Don Tequeno Y Dona Arepa clean?

Don Tequeno Y Dona Arepa is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 14, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at Don Tequeno Y Dona Arepa?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 14, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C)
• ⚠️Food Storage Prohibited Areas (C)
• ⚠️(A)(1) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P)critical
• ⚠️Using a Handwashing Sink-Operation and Maintenance (Pf)

Don Tequeno Y Dona Arepa inspection and administrative history

Don Tequeno Y Dona Arepa has 8 inspections on record going back to July 19, 2024.

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

History worth a look: 2 of these 5 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

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Don Tequeno Y Dona Arepa vs Mission Hill

Mission Hill runs 77% clean across 245 tracked restaurants — 180 clean, 28 mid, 27 cooked.

Against the 245 spots Cooked tracks in Mission Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 October 14, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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