• resultFail
• critical violations3
• last inspectedJanuary 28, 2014 →
• address1127 Harrison Av, Roxbury 02119

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Is Express Cafe Inc. clean?

Express Cafe Inc. is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 28, 2014. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Express Cafe Inc.?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 28, 2014, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Hot Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Pesticide Usagecritical
• ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical

Express Cafe Inc. inspection and administrative history

Express Cafe Inc. has 21 inspections on record going back to April 6, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Express Cafe Inc. vs South End

South End runs 83% clean across 677 tracked restaurants — 500 clean, 56 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 677 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 January 28, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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