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

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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)
• ⚠️(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf)
• ⚠️Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C)
• ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf)
• ⚠️Single-Service and Single-Use Articles-Use Limitations (C)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Outer Openings Protected (C)
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf)
• ⚠️Removing Dead or Trapped Birds Insects Rodents and other Pest (C)
• ⚠️uspension of Permit with Notice (P)critical

Happy Garden inspection and administrative history

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 85% clean across 480 tracked restaurants — 395 clean, 37 mid, 33 cooked.

Against the 480 spots Cooked tracks in Brighton, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 October 27, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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