• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJuly 20, 2012 →
• address105 Merrimac St, Boston 02114

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Is Flat Iron Restaurant At Bulfinch Hotel clean?

Flat Iron Restaurant At Bulfinch Hotel is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 20, 2012. 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 Flat Iron Restaurant At Bulfinch Hotel?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 20, 2012, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Clean Equipment & Utensils Storage
• ⚠️Improper Storage of Re-usable Utensils
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical
• ⚠️Consumer Advisoriescritical

Flat Iron Restaurant At Bulfinch Hotel inspection and administrative history

Flat Iron Restaurant At Bulfinch Hotel has 22 inspections on record going back to March 28, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Flat Iron Restaurant At Bulfinch Hotel vs West End

West End runs 88% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 206 clean, 15 mid, 12 cooked.

Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in West End, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 July 20, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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