• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedFebruary 21, 2012 →
• address1156 River St, Hyde Park 02136

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Is El Rancho Cafe clean?

El Rancho Cafe is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 21, 2012. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at El Rancho Cafe?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 6 code checks as passed on February 21, 2012.

El Rancho Cafe inspection and administrative history

El Rancho Cafe has 12 inspections on record going back to July 21, 2009.

El Rancho Cafe vs Hyde Park

Hyde Park runs 78% clean across 180 tracked restaurants — 132 clean, 20 mid, 18 cooked.

Against the 180 spots Cooked tracks in Hyde Park, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 February 21, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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