• resultFail
• critical violations3
• last inspectedOctober 6, 2008 →
• address93 Burrell, Roxbury 02119

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Is Grover Variety clean?

Grover Variety is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 6, 2008. 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 Grover Variety?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 6, 2008, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Spoilage Unsafe Foodcritical
• ⚠️Separation Segregation Cross Contaminationcritical
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Hot and Cold Watercritical
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage

Grover Variety inspection and administrative history

Grover Variety has 7 inspections on record going back to July 17, 2007.

Grover Variety 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.

Other spots in Roxbury

• ✓ Hancock Market
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• ? 99 Cent State Inc.
  not rated · December 30, 2012
• ✓ Walnut Market
  clean · May 30, 2023
• ✕ Island Style Inc.
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• ✓ Compton Drug
  clean · November 8, 2011
• ✓ La Casa Alegre
  clean · October 31, 2008

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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 October 6, 2008. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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