• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedFebruary 3, 2021 →
• address95 Hancock St, Dorchester 02125

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Is Hancock Street Market clean?

Hancock Street Market is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 3, 2021. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Hancock Street Market?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 3, 2021, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events (Pf)
• ⚠️Safe Unadulterated and Honestly Presented (P)critical
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Segregation and Location-Distressed Merchandise (Pf)
• ⚠️flagged at inspection

Hancock Street Market inspection and administrative history

Hancock Street Market has 20 inspections on record going back to August 14, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Hancock Street Market 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 4% 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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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 February 3, 2021. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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