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Grandten Distilling
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 26, 2021
- address383 Dorchester Av, South Boston 02127
Is Grandten Distilling clean?
Grandten Distilling is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 26, 2021. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Grandten Distilling?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 26, 2021, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Temperature Measuring Devices Manual and Mechanical Warewashing (Pf) • No irreversible thermometer or thermal strips for confirming final rinse temperature. Provide either thermometer or strips.Temperature Measuring Devices Manual and Mechanical Warewashing (Pf) • No irreversible thermometer or thermal strips for confirming final rinse temperature. Provide either thermometer or strips.
- ⚠️Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf) • No test strips for quats sanitizer. Provide test strips.Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf) • No test strips for quats sanitizer. Provide test strips.
- ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Dust debris and mouse droppings under bar sinks and equipment. Clean and monitor for rodent activity.Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Dust debris and mouse droppings under bar sinks and equipment. Clean and monitor for rodent activity.
When was Grandten Distilling last inspected?
Grandten Distilling has 17 inspections on record going back to May 27, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| November 26, 2021 | Pass | |
| November 19, 2021 | Fail | |
| May 11, 2021 | Pass | |
| May 4, 2021 | Fail | |
| March 5, 2020 | Pass | |
| February 27, 2020 | Fail | |
| January 24, 2019 | Pass | |
| January 16, 2019 | — | |
| January 9, 2019 | Fail | |
| September 12, 2018 | Pass |
Grandten Distilling vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 85% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 252 clean, 22 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 November 26, 2021. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.