• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 4, 2013 →
• address116 Washington St, Dorchester 02121

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Is J And L Cafe clean?

J And L Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 4, 2013. 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 J And L Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 4, 2013, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Cleancritical
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded

J And L Cafe inspection and administrative history

J And L Cafe has 7 inspections on record going back to June 11, 2012.

J And L Cafe 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 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 October 4, 2013. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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