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La Bendicion Market
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 19, 2025
- address32 Bennington St, East Boston 02128
Is La Bendicion Market clean?
La Bendicion Market is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 19, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at La Bendicion Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • The large reach-in refrigerating unit with the interior bottom soiled. Clean properly.Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • The large reach-in refrigerating unit with the interior bottom soiled. Clean properly.
- ⚠️Floor and Wall Junctures Coved and Enclosed or Sealed (C) • Floor at the retail area damaged missing some tiles. Repair.Floor and Wall Junctures Coved and Enclosed or Sealed (C) • Floor at the retail area damaged missing some tiles. Repair.
- ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • Several not in use items throen on the floor at lower level. Remove and clean the area.Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • Several not in use items throen on the floor at lower level. Remove and clean the area.
- ⚠️Cleaning Floors Dustless Methods (C) • Floor at lower level with some water in the corner. PIC stated due to a broken water pump that it was already repaired at this time. Clean properly.Cleaning Floors Dustless Methods (C) • Floor at lower level with some water in the corner. PIC stated due to a broken water pump that it was already repaired at this time. Clean properly.
When was La Bendicion Market last inspected?
La Bendicion Market has 36 inspections on record going back to August 8, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 12, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 5, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| November 29, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 31, 2022 | Pass | |
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| March 23, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| March 14, 2022 | Fail | |
| April 23, 2021 | Pass | |
| April 16, 2021 | Fail |
La Bendicion Market vs East Boston
East Boston runs 92% clean across 529 tracked restaurants — 472 clean, 19 mid, 21 cooked.
Against the 529 spots Cooked tracks in East Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.