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El Primo Market
- resultFail
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 10, 2023
- address230 Columbia Rd, Dorchester 02121
Is El Primo Market clean?
El Primo Market is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 10, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at El Primo Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 10, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Characteristics-Materials for Construction and Repair (C) • Remove cardboard boxes as liner from dry food storage shelving through out and provide commercial food service grade liners.Characteristics-Materials for Construction and Repair (C) • Remove cardboard boxes as liner from dry food storage shelving through out and provide commercial food service grade liners.
- ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Missing floor tiles near front entrace repair.Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Missing floor tiles near front entrace repair.
- ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf) • observed evidence of mice droppings below chips snack shelving clean sanitize and provide current Pest Control Service report.Controlling Pests (Pf) • observed evidence of mice droppings below chips snack shelving clean sanitize and provide current Pest Control Service report.
- ⚠️Prohibiting Animals (Pf) • Observed cat at basement storage area animals are not allowed on premises remove.Prohibiting Animals (Pf) • Observed cat at basement storage area animals are not allowed on premises remove.
- ⚠️Unpaid Health Permit 2023 pay as soon as possible.Unpaid Health Permit 2023 pay as soon as possible.
When was El Primo Market last inspected?
El Primo Market has 14 inspections on record going back to August 15, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| February 21, 2023 | — | |
| February 10, 2023 | Fail | |
| May 17, 2022 | Pass | |
| May 6, 2022 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| December 20, 2021 | Pass | |
| May 13, 2021 | Pass | |
| May 6, 2021 | Fail | |
| July 27, 2020 | Pass | |
| December 4, 2019 | Pass | |
| November 27, 2019 | Fail |
El Primo Market vs Roxbury
Roxbury runs 83% clean across 708 tracked restaurants — 559 clean, 69 mid, 49 cooked.
Against the 708 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 February 10, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.