• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedDecember 12, 2018 →
• address235 Meridian St, East Boston 02128

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Is Harbor Pacific clean?

Harbor Pacific is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on December 12, 2018. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at Harbor Pacific?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 12, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Cold Holdingcritical
• ⚠️PHF's Properly Thawed
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Location Accessiblecritical
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings

Harbor Pacific inspection and administrative history

Harbor Pacific has 15 inspections on record going back to April 14, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 4 of these 8 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Harbor Pacific vs East Boston

East Boston runs 93% clean across 526 tracked restaurants — 471 clean, 18 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 526 spots Cooked tracks in East Boston, 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 December 12, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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