Cooked?Grain And Salt
- resultFail
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 13, 2009 →
- address417 Cambridge St, Allston 02134
Is Grain And Salt clean?
Grain And Salt is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 13, 2009. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Grain And Salt?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 13, 2009, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
- ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
- ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
- ⚠️Adequate Number Frequency Vermin Proof
- ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
- 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleanedImproper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
- ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded
Grain And Salt inspection and administrative history
Grain And Salt has 5 inspections on record going back to January 10, 2008.
December 30, 2012 Inspection not required
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →January 29, 2009 Administrative record filed
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →January 13, 2009 Fail
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View full inspection →January 24, 2008 Administrative record filed
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View full inspection →January 10, 2008 Fail
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View full inspection →Grain And Salt vs Allston
Allston runs 88% clean across 492 tracked restaurants — 414 clean, 34 mid, 24 cooked.
Against the 492 spots Cooked tracks in Allston, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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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Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated January 13, 2009. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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