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Dot Cafe
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 27, 2023
- address1459 Dorchester Av, Dorchester 02122
Is Dot Cafe clean?
Dot Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 27, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Dot Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 27, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Controlling Pests (C) • At the time of the re-inspection pest control reports were up to date. There was still evidence of fruit fly activity noted in the main front service area near small flip top cooler. Address.Controlling Pests (C) • At the time of the re-inspection pest control reports were up to date. There was still evidence of fruit fly activity noted in the main front service area near small flip top cooler. Address.
When was Dot Cafe last inspected?
Dot Cafe has 31 inspections on record going back to January 9, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| October 27, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 19, 2023 | Fail | |
| October 13, 2023 | — | |
| October 5, 2023 | Fail | |
| March 23, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 6, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| January 9, 2023 | Fail | |
| September 22, 2022 | Pass | |
| September 14, 2022 | Fail |
Dot Cafe vs Dorchester
Dorchester runs 83% clean across 542 tracked restaurants — 432 clean, 30 mid, 61 cooked.
Against the 542 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 27, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.