• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJune 11, 2008 →
• address323 Washington St, Dorchester 02121

📸 get the free app — point your camera down a block, grades float over the storefronts

Is Francisco's Cafe El Original clean?

Francisco's Cafe El Original is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 11, 2008. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Francisco's Cafe El Original?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 4 code checks as passed on June 11, 2008.

Francisco's Cafe El Original inspection and administrative history

Francisco's Cafe El Original has 5 inspections on record going back to May 28, 2008.

Francisco's Cafe El Original vs Dorchester

Dorchester runs 85% clean across 525 tracked restaurants — 429 clean, 33 mid, 44 cooked.

Against the 525 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 15% of them.

Other spots in Dorchester

• ✓ Bel-Cuisine Restaurant
  clean · June 26, 2009
• ✓ Mcdonalds
  clean · August 17, 2026
• ✓ Mcdonalds
  clean · June 9, 2026
• ✕ Henz Convenience Store Llc
  cooked · April 12, 2010
• ✓ National Wholesale Liqidators
  clean · March 16, 2018
• ✕ Churrascaria Vulcao
  mid · December 10, 2020

See every restaurant inspection in Dorchester →

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.

Read the Boston ratings guide →

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 11, 2008. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

check your own block 📸

Cooked covers 10 cities on official inspection data — see who's clean, mid, or cooked near you.