• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 13, 2021 →
• address11 Blue Hill Av, Roxbury 02119

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Is El Caribeno Restaurant clean?

El Caribeno Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 13, 2021. 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 El Caribeno Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 13, 2021, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A)(1) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P)critical
• ⚠️Cutting Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Hand Drying Provision (Pf)
• ⚠️flagged at inspection

El Caribeno Restaurant inspection and administrative history

El Caribeno Restaurant has 20 inspections on record going back to March 7, 2017. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

History worth a look: 4 of these 8 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

El Caribeno Restaurant vs Roxbury

Roxbury runs 83% clean across 693 tracked restaurants — 549 clean, 63 mid, 48 cooked.

Against the 693 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.

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• ✕ J & M Liquors
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• ✕ Figueroa Mini Market Inc.
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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 January 13, 2021. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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