Cooked?El Progresso Market
- resultFail
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMarch 19, 2012 →
- address143 Boylston St, Jamaica Plain 02130
Is El Progresso Market clean?
El Progresso Market is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 19, 2012. 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 Progresso Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 19, 2012, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
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El Progresso Market inspection and administrative history
El Progresso Market has 15 inspections on record going back to November 7, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
December 30, 2012 Inspection not required
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →April 13, 2012 Out of business
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View full inspection →April 9, 2012 Out of business
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View full inspection →March 19, 2012 Fail
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View full inspection →March 12, 2012 Fail
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View full inspection →March 5, 2012 Fail
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View full inspection →August 1, 2011 Administrative record filed
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View full inspection →February 4, 2011 Administrative record filed
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View full inspection →October 25, 2010 Pass
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View full inspection →June 24, 2010 Administrative record filed
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View full inspection →March 29, 2010 Administrative record filed
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View full inspection →November 6, 2009 Pass
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View full inspection →El Progresso Market vs Roxbury
Roxbury runs 83% clean across 689 tracked restaurants — 542 clean, 66 mid, 48 cooked.
Against the 689 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, 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 March 19, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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