Happy Garden

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 27, 2020
• address377 Washington St, Brighton 02135

Is Happy Garden clean?

Happy Garden is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 27, 2020. 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 Happy Garden?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 27, 2020, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C) • Allergen awareness certificate is expired. Provide current.
  (A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C) • Allergen awareness certificate is expired. Provide current.
• ⚠️(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf) • The CFPM is not monitoring current health permit pest control cleaning proper labeling of foods allergen awareness and COVID19 requirements. Provide active managerial control. Retrain staff.
  (A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf) • The CFPM is not monitoring current health permit pest control cleaning proper labeling of foods allergen awareness and COVID19 requirements. Provide active managerial control. Retrain staff.
• ⚠️Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C) • Label bags of food in freezers.
  Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C) • Label bags of food in freezers.
• ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf) • Bags and containers or prepared TCS foods in walkin cooler with no label. Provide.
  Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf) • Bags and containers or prepared TCS foods in walkin cooler with no label. Provide.
• ⚠️Single-Service and Single-Use Articles-Use Limitations (C) • Establishment reusing cardboard boxes that once held raw chicken. Disard. Discontinue
  Single-Service and Single-Use Articles-Use Limitations (C) • Establishment reusing cardboard boxes that once held raw chicken. Disard. Discontinue
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Clean hoods and walls behind cookline of grease clean floors under around and behind equipment. Clean walls of food spatters throughout kitchen area Clean stair treads to basment of buildup of soils. Clean floor in walkin cooler of spills. Clean inside and outside every refrigerate unit in the business of visible soils and caked on debri on handles. Develop cleaning schedule.
  Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Clean hoods and walls behind cookline of grease clean floors under around and behind equipment. Clean walls of food spatters throughout kitchen area Clean stair treads to basment of buildup of soils. Clean floor in walkin cooler of spills. Clean inside and outside every refrigerate unit in the business of visible soils and caked on debri on handles. Develop cleaning schedule.
• ⚠️Outer Openings Protected (C) • Seal gaps around rear screen door with pest proof material.
  Outer Openings Protected (C) • Seal gaps around rear screen door with pest proof material.
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf) • Evidence of mice activity. Provide updated IPM pest control report.
  Controlling Pests (Pf) • Evidence of mice activity. Provide updated IPM pest control report.
• ⚠️Removing Dead or Trapped Birds Insects Rodents and other Pest (C) • Observed dead mouse on glue trap in basment. Remove.
  Removing Dead or Trapped Birds Insects Rodents and other Pest (C) • Observed dead mouse on glue trap in basment. Remove.
• ⚠️uspension of Permit with Notice (P) • Establsihment operating without a valid 2020 health permit. Pay immediately. Issued next day closure notice.critical
  uspension of Permit with Notice (P) • Establsihment operating without a valid 2020 health permit. Pay immediately. Issued next day closure notice.

When was Happy Garden last inspected?

Happy Garden has 15 inspections on record going back to June 15, 2017. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Happy Garden vs Brighton

Brighton runs 83% clean across 486 tracked restaurants — 393 clean, 43 mid, 35 cooked.

Against the 486 spots Cooked tracks in Brighton, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 October 27, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.