El Paisa Restaurant No. 2

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJuly 29, 2021 →
• address215 Border St, East Boston 02128

Is El Paisa Restaurant No. 2 clean?

El Paisa Restaurant No. 2 is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 29, 2021. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at El Paisa Restaurant No. 2?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 7 code checks as passed on July 29, 2021.

El Paisa Restaurant No. 2 inspection and administrative history

El Paisa Restaurant No. 2 has 14 inspections on record going back to March 14, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.

El Paisa Restaurant No. 2 vs North End

North End runs 91% clean across 698 tracked restaurants — 578 clean, 33 mid, 26 cooked.

Against the 698 spots Cooked tracks in North End, 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 July 29, 2021. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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