Kapow

• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJanuary 13, 2022 →
• address2257 Dorchester Av, Dorchester 02124

Is Kapow clean?

Kapow is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 13, 2022. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Kapow?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 13, 2022, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C)
• ⚠️Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C)
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Use Limitation (C)
• ⚠️Nonfood-Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Warewashing Sinks and Drain boards Self-Draining (C)

Kapow inspection and administrative history

Kapow has 43 inspections on record going back to June 6, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Kapow vs Mattapan

Mattapan runs 76% clean across 294 tracked restaurants — 211 clean, 40 mid, 25 cooked.

Against the 294 spots Cooked tracks in Mattapan, this one comes out cleaner than 15% of them.

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• ✓ La Belle Creole
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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 January 13, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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