• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 26, 2013 →
• address830 Blue Hill Av, Dorchester 02124

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Is Jennie's Cafe Restaurant clean?

Jennie's Cafe Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 26, 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 Jennie's Cafe Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 26, 2013, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Cleancritical
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Rooms and Equipment Vented
• ⚠️Premises Maintained

Jennie's Cafe Restaurant inspection and administrative history

Jennie's Cafe Restaurant has 7 inspections on record going back to August 16, 2012.

Jennie's Cafe Restaurant 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 4% 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 August 26, 2013. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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