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Empire Garden
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 22, 2017
- address686 Washington St, Boston 02111
Is Empire Garden clean?
Empire Garden is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 22, 2017. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Empire Garden?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 22, 2017, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • 1) all shelving in Tea service area with soils and debrise clean to remove 2) bottom shelves of counter and prep tables in kitchen with soils and debris clean to removeNon-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • 1) all shelving in Tea service area with soils and debrise clean to remove 2) bottom shelves of counter and prep tables in kitchen with soils and debris clean to remove
- ⚠️Installed and Maintained • hand sink at prep area back end of kitchen leaking repairInstalled and Maintained • hand sink at prep area back end of kitchen leaking repair
When was Empire Garden last inspected?
Empire Garden has 50 inspections on record going back to June 5, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| May 22, 2017 | Pass | |
| May 4, 2017 | Fail | |
| December 28, 2016 | — | |
| September 2, 2016 | Pass | |
| August 26, 2016 | Fail | |
| January 28, 2016 | Pass | |
| January 19, 2016 | Fail | |
| October 22, 2015 | — | |
| June 25, 2015 | — | |
| March 20, 2015 | Pass | |
| March 13, 2015 | Fail |
Empire Garden 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.
Other spots in Chinatown
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 22, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.