• resultFail
• critical violations3
• last inspectedApril 27, 2018 →
• address353 Hanover St, Boston 02113

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Is Giacomo's clean?

Giacomo's is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 27, 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 Giacomo's?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 27, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Coolingcritical
• ⚠️PHF's Properly Thawed
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Cleancritical
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded
• ⚠️PIC Knowledgecritical

Giacomo's inspection and administrative history

Giacomo's has 19 inspections on record going back to April 15, 2009. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Giacomo's vs North End

North End runs 91% clean across 698 tracked restaurants — 578 clean, 33 mid, 26 cooked.

Against the 698 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 1% of them.

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• ✓ The Bostonian Boston - A Millennium Hotel
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• ✓ Black Rose
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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 27, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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