• resultFail
• critical violations3
• last inspectedFebruary 6, 2026 →
• address1031 Dorchester Av, Dorchester 02125

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Is Gao Vietnamese Kitchen clean?

Gao Vietnamese Kitchen is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 6, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Gao Vietnamese Kitchen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 6, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf)
• ⚠️Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C)
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Use Limitation (C)
• ⚠️Cooling (P)critical
• ⚠️(A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P)critical
• ⚠️Nonfood-Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Ventilation Hood Systems Filters (C)
• ⚠️Manual and Mechanical Warewashing Equipment Chemical Sanitization-Temperature pH Concentration and Hardness (P)critical
• ⚠️Using a Handwashing Sink-Operation and Maintenance (Pf)
• ⚠️Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C)
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
• ⚠️flagged at inspection

Gao Vietnamese Kitchen inspection and administrative history

Gao Vietnamese Kitchen has 17 inspections on record going back to May 29, 2024. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Gao Vietnamese Kitchen 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 0% 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 February 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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