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Food Basket
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 27, 2020
- address563 Columbus Av, Roxbury 02118
Is Food Basket clean?
Food Basket is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 27, 2020. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Food Basket?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 27, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf) • Several items in the retail/dairy sections observed with expired sell by dates.PIC instructed to remove/rotate items daily.PIC to also re-train all staff to monitor sell by dates daily.(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf) • Several items in the retail/dairy sections observed with expired sell by dates.PIC instructed to remove/rotate items daily.PIC to also re-train all staff to monitor sell by dates daily.
- ⚠️Discarding or Reconditioning Unsafe Adulterated or Contaminated Food (P) • Several retail/dairy items observed with expired sell by dates.Remove PIC removingcriticalDiscarding or Reconditioning Unsafe Adulterated or Contaminated Food (P) • Several retail/dairy items observed with expired sell by dates.Remove PIC removing
- ⚠️Removing Dead or Trapped Birds Insects Rodents and other Pest (C) • Soiled glue traps observed at retail shelving.Remove/replaceRemoving Dead or Trapped Birds Insects Rodents and other Pest (C) • Soiled glue traps observed at retail shelving.Remove/replace
- ⚠️Prohibiting Animals (Pf) • Remove live cat from premises.Prohibiting Animals (Pf) • Remove live cat from premises.
When was Food Basket last inspected?
Food Basket has 40 inspections on record going back to June 6, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| July 27, 2020 | Pass | |
| July 20, 2020 | Fail | |
| February 28, 2020 | Pass | |
| November 19, 2019 | Pass | |
| November 12, 2019 | Fail | |
| June 13, 2019 | Pass | |
| June 5, 2019 | Fail | |
| January 24, 2019 | Pass | |
| January 17, 2019 | Fail | |
| September 25, 2018 | — | |
| September 18, 2018 | Fail |
Food Basket vs South End
South End runs 81% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 498 clean, 63 mid, 54 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 July 27, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.