• resultFail
• critical violations3
• last inspectedApril 20, 2018 →
• address143 Washington St, Dorchester 02121

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Is Garifuna Cafe clean?

Garifuna Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 20, 2018. 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 Garifuna Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 20, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Labeling of Ingredientscritical
• ⚠️Food Thermometers Provided
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Improper Storage of Re-usable Utensils
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded
• ⚠️Inadequate Lighting
• ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical
• ⚠️Consumer Advisoriescritical

Garifuna Cafe inspection and administrative history

Garifuna Cafe has 7 inspections on record going back to November 1, 2016.

Garifuna Cafe vs Roxbury

Roxbury runs 83% clean across 689 tracked restaurants — 542 clean, 66 mid, 48 cooked.

Against the 689 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 April 20, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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