• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJune 22, 2018 →
• address1459 Dorchester Av, Dorchester 02122

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Is Dot Cafe clean?

Dot Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 22, 2018. 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 Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 22, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• ⚠️Floors Designed Constructed Installed
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical

Dot Cafe inspection and administrative history

Dot Cafe has 9 inspections on record going back to August 16, 2017.

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

History worth a look: 3 of these 6 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

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 5% 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 June 22, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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