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El Pelon Taqueria
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 12, 2024
- address84 Peterborough St, Boston 02215
Is El Pelon Taqueria clean?
El Pelon Taqueria is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 12, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Pelon Taqueria?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 12, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Backflow Prevention Air Gap (P) • Food prep sink without air gap. Consult plumber- determine if air gap can be installed. 3 compartment sink being used to wash produce with wash/rinse/sanitize procedure in place.criticalBackflow Prevention Air Gap (P) • Food prep sink without air gap. Consult plumber- determine if air gap can be installed. 3 compartment sink being used to wash produce with wash/rinse/sanitize procedure in place.
When was El Pelon Taqueria last inspected?
El Pelon Taqueria has 46 inspections on record going back to November 4, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 12, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 11, 2024 | Fail | |
| June 4, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 26, 2024 | — | |
| January 19, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| March 15, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 1, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| September 16, 2022 | Pass | |
| September 8, 2022 | Fail | |
| June 13, 2022 | — |
El Pelon Taqueria vs Longwood
Longwood runs 78% clean across 203 tracked restaurants — 153 clean, 19 mid, 23 cooked.
Against the 203 spots Cooked tracks in Longwood, this one comes out cleaner than 22% 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 June 12, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.