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La Bamba Market
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 20, 2011
- address1 Lorne St, Dorchester 02124
Is La Bamba Market clean?
La Bamba Market is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 20, 2011. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at La Bamba Market?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on May 20, 2011. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was La Bamba Market last inspected?
La Bamba Market has 13 inspections on record going back to December 13, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 30, 2013 | — | |
| February 1, 2013 | — | |
| December 30, 2012 | — | |
| September 11, 2012 | — | |
| March 2, 2012 | — | |
| May 20, 2011 | Pass | |
| April 1, 2010 | Pass | |
| December 21, 2009 | Pass | |
| December 14, 2009 | Fail | |
| February 4, 2009 | Pass | |
| January 20, 2009 | Fail | |
| January 10, 2008 | Pass |
La Bamba Market vs Mattapan
Mattapan runs 76% clean across 299 tracked restaurants — 213 clean, 37 mid, 31 cooked.
Against the 299 spots Cooked tracks in Mattapan, this one comes out cleaner than 24% 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.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated May 20, 2011. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.