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Golden Chef
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 16, 2025
- address1495 Dorchester Av, Dorchester 02122
Is Golden Chef clean?
Golden Chef is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 16, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Golden Chef?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 16, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf) • Povide test kits for the sanitizer in 3 bay sinkSanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf) • Povide test kits for the sanitizer in 3 bay sink
- ⚠️Cleaning Frequency and Restrictions (C) • Ceiling vent with visible dust build up / Clean to removeCleaning Frequency and Restrictions (C) • Ceiling vent with visible dust build up / Clean to remove
When was Golden Chef last inspected?
Golden Chef has 29 inspections on record going back to March 4, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 16, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 15, 2025 | Fail | |
| January 6, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 20, 2024 | Pass | |
| May 9, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 12, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| January 2, 2024 | Fail | |
| July 21, 2023 | Pass | |
| July 14, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| January 17, 2023 | — |
Golden Chef vs Dorchester
Dorchester runs 85% clean across 542 tracked restaurants — 445 clean, 31 mid, 47 cooked.
Against the 542 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 January 16, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.