Fish Market

• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMarch 10, 2023
• address170 Brighton Av, Allston 02134

Is Fish Market clean?

Fish Market is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 10, 2023. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Fish Market?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 10, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Parasite Destruction (P) • Letters of guarantees more tha 1 year old. Provide current ones.critical
  Parasite Destruction (P) • Letters of guarantees more tha 1 year old. Provide current ones.
• ⚠️Hand Drying Provision (Pf) • Handsink at lower without paper towel . Provide. Remove ice machine draining pipe.
  Hand Drying Provision (Pf) • Handsink at lower without paper towel . Provide. Remove ice machine draining pipe.
• ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • Grease container at rear very soiled with grease built up. Clean properly. Clean loose trash around it.
  Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • Grease container at rear very soiled with grease built up. Clean properly. Clean loose trash around it.
• ⚠️Conformance with Approved Procedures (P) • Observed sushi rice in rice warmer at prep area. PIC stated is yesterday sushi rice. PIC discarded the rice voluntarily. Discard the left over sushi rice daily in accordance with your HACCP plan. PIC using ph paper instead of ph metter as described in HACCP plan. Use ph metter as primary way of measuring rice ph.critical
  Conformance with Approved Procedures (P) • Observed sushi rice in rice warmer at prep area. PIC stated is yesterday sushi rice. PIC discarded the rice voluntarily. Discard the left over sushi rice daily in accordance with your HACCP plan. PIC using ph paper instead of ph metter as described in HACCP plan. Use ph metter as primary way of measuring rice ph.
• ⚠️Conformance with Approved Procedures (Pf) • Lab test and letters of guarantee both more than 1 year old. Provide current ones.
  Conformance with Approved Procedures (Pf) • Lab test and letters of guarantee both more than 1 year old. Provide current ones.

When was Fish Market last inspected?

Fish Market has 54 inspections on record going back to April 3, 2009. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Fish Market vs Allston

Allston runs 88% clean across 493 tracked restaurants — 415 clean, 35 mid, 23 cooked.

Against the 493 spots Cooked tracks in Allston, this one comes out cleaner than 2% of them.

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• ✓ Trustees Of Boston University
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• ✓ Bravo Pizza
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• ✓ Lilly's Gourmet Pasta Express
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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 March 10, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.