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El Triunfo Restaurant / Ali Baba
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 4, 2026
- address147 E Berkeley St, Roxbury 02118
Is El Triunfo Restaurant / Ali Baba clean?
El Triunfo Restaurant / Ali Baba is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 4, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Triunfo Restaurant / Ali Baba?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 4, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C) • There is no prep sink on site.Provide a proper sink with an air gap. (PIC stating the 3 bay sink is used before business opens)Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C) • There is no prep sink on site.Provide a proper sink with an air gap. (PIC stating the 3 bay sink is used before business opens)
- ⚠️Service Sink (C) • There is no mop sink on site.Provide (PIC stating the toilet is used)Service Sink (C) • There is no mop sink on site.Provide (PIC stating the toilet is used)
- ⚠️Maintaining Refuse Areas and Enclosures (C) • Clean the outside trash location to remove unused equipment and debrisMaintaining Refuse Areas and Enclosures (C) • Clean the outside trash location to remove unused equipment and debris
- ⚠️Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • The hood sticker expired on 2.8.26.Provide a proper hood cleaning from a licensed company.Post new sticker (PIC stating appt is on 4.29.26)Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • The hood sticker expired on 2.8.26.Provide a proper hood cleaning from a licensed company.Post new sticker (PIC stating appt is on 4.29.26)
- ⚠️Provide an allergy warning on the paper menu(turkish side)Provide an allergy warning on the paper menu(turkish side)
When was El Triunfo Restaurant / Ali Baba last inspected?
El Triunfo Restaurant / Ali Baba has 33 inspections on record going back to July 19, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 4, 2026 | Pass | |
| April 21, 2026 | Fail | |
| November 13, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 6, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 22, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 14, 2025 | Fail | |
| November 13, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 6, 2024 | Fail | |
| May 23, 2024 | Pass | |
| May 15, 2024 | Fail | |
| October 20, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 11, 2023 | Fail |
El Triunfo Restaurant / Ali Baba vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 85% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 252 clean, 22 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 May 4, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.