• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJune 9, 2026 →
• address185 Howard Av, Dorchester 02125

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Is First Choice Mkt. clean?

First Choice Mkt. is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 9, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at First Choice Mkt.?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 6 code checks as passed on June 9, 2026.

First Choice Mkt. inspection and administrative history

First Choice Mkt. has 37 inspections on record going back to November 7, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.

First Choice Mkt. vs Roxbury

Roxbury runs 83% clean across 689 tracked restaurants — 542 clean, 66 mid, 48 cooked.

Against the 689 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 17% of them.

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• ✓ Stop N Save Shell
  clean · August 20, 2026
• ✓ Black Bag Mini Mart
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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 June 9, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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