Cooked?Fai Canteen
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The current published rating reads cooked. The dated inspection has the receipts.
- resultFail
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 22, 2026 →
- address535 Albany St, Roxbury 02118
Is Fai Canteen clean?
Fai Canteen is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 22, 2026. 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 Fai Canteen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Display-Preventing Contamination by Consumers (P)critical
- ⚠️Consumption of Animal Foods that are Raw Undercooked or Not Otherwise Processed to Eliminate Pathogens (Pf)
- ⚠️Sponges Use Limitation (C)
Fai Canteen inspection and administrative history
Fai Canteen has 3 inspections on record going back to May 13, 2026.
Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record
October 22, 2026 Fail
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View full inspection →May 28, 2026 Pass
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View full inspection →May 13, 2026 Administrative record filed
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →Fai Canteen vs South End
South End runs 83% clean across 682 tracked restaurants — 502 clean, 59 mid, 45 cooked.
Against the 682 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 October 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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