• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 20, 2016 →
• address8 Beacon St, Boston 02108

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Is High Spot Deli clean?

High Spot Deli is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 20, 2016. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at High Spot Deli?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 20, 2016, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Clean Cloths Hair Restraint
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️Premises Maintained

High Spot Deli inspection and administrative history

High Spot Deli has 38 inspections on record going back to October 24, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

High Spot Deli vs Downtown

Downtown runs 92% clean across 993 tracked restaurants — 859 clean, 47 mid, 32 cooked.

Against the 993 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 May 20, 2016. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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