Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division has not published a current health inspection result for Family Kitchen, though it does have an inspection on record from April 1, 2008. That usually means the place is new, recently changed hands, or files under a different name with the city. No rating is not the same as a bad rating.
What did inspectors find at Family Kitchen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 1, 2008, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • clean dust from tops of units
Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • clean dust from tops of units
⚠️Hot and Cold Water • 3 bay/provide proper flow of hot watercritical
Hot and Cold Water • 3 bay/provide proper flow of hot water
⚠️Location Accessible • provide access to handsinkcritical
Location Accessible • provide access to handsink
⚠️Test Kit Provided • 3 bay/provide proper test kit
Test Kit Provided • 3 bay/provide proper test kit
⚠️Separation Segregation Cross Contamination • 1 door reach in/provide proper storage of raw chickencritical
Separation Segregation Cross Contamination • 1 door reach in/provide proper storage of raw chicken
⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces • 1 door freezer/defrost
Non-Food Contact Surfaces • 1 door freezer/defrost
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 April 1, 2008. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.