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Finagle A Bagel
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedAugust 20, 2015
- address1 Center Plaza, Boston 02108
Is Finagle A Bagel clean?
Finagle A Bagel is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 20, 2015. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Finagle A Bagel?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 20, 2015, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Hot Holding • Pre-cooked chicken @ 125f-130f in hot hold box ensure proper hot hold of 140f or above. Manager had employee reheated chicken to 168f in oven at time of inspection.criticalHot Holding • Pre-cooked chicken @ 125f-130f in hot hold box ensure proper hot hold of 140f or above. Manager had employee reheated chicken to 168f in oven at time of inspection.
- ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings • 1. walls of cabinets at bagel area with soils clean to remove 2. ceiling above bagel toaster with heavy dust build up clean to removeImproper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings • 1. walls of cabinets at bagel area with soils clean to remove 2. ceiling above bagel toaster with heavy dust build up clean to remove
When was Finagle A Bagel last inspected?
Finagle A Bagel has 32 inspections on record going back to February 27, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 20, 2015 | Pass | |
| August 12, 2015 | Fail | |
| January 15, 2015 | Pass | |
| September 8, 2014 | Pass | |
| August 29, 2014 | Fail | |
| May 28, 2014 | Pass | |
| December 30, 2013 | — | |
| August 13, 2013 | Pass | |
| July 29, 2013 | Fail | |
| September 26, 2012 | — | |
| September 19, 2012 | Fail | |
| May 16, 2012 | — |
Finagle A Bagel vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 August 20, 2015. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.