• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJuly 14, 2016 →
• address1735 Dorchester Av, Dorchester 02124

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Is Dot 2 Dot Cafe clean?

Dot 2 Dot Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 14, 2016. 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 Dot 2 Dot Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 14, 2016, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Consumer Advisoriescritical

Dot 2 Dot Cafe inspection and administrative history

Dot 2 Dot Cafe has 27 inspections on record going back to May 2, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

History worth a look: 5 of these 6 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Dot 2 Dot Cafe vs Dorchester

Dorchester runs 85% clean across 527 tracked restaurants — 432 clean, 35 mid, 41 cooked.

Against the 527 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 8% of them.

Other spots in Dorchester

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  clean · April 29, 2008
• ✓ Small Change Convenience Store
  clean · June 18, 2009
• ✓ D'javi Restaurant
  cooked · October 26, 2007
• ✓ Tavolo
  clean · July 14, 2026
• ✕ Stop & Shop/Dunkin Donuts No. 18
  mid · October 20, 2026
• ✓ Stop & Shop/Dunkin Donuts No. 18
  clean · November 7, 2017

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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 July 14, 2016. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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