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La Borinquena Grocery
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 4, 2026
- address534 Dudley St, Roxbury 02119
Is La Borinquena Grocery clean?
La Borinquena Grocery is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 4, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at La Borinquena Grocery?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 4, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Characteristics-Materials for Construction and Repair (C) • Remove all soiled and compromised vcarboard on the floors and used to line shelves of the wire chp racksCharacteristics-Materials for Construction and Repair (C) • Remove all soiled and compromised vcarboard on the floors and used to line shelves of the wire chp racks
- ⚠️Prohibiting Animals (Pf) • Remove cat from the premisesProhibiting Animals (Pf) • Remove cat from the premises
When was La Borinquena Grocery last inspected?
La Borinquena Grocery has 46 inspections on record going back to June 15, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 4, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 29, 2026 | Fail | |
| May 14, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 7, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 29, 2025 | Fail | |
| July 31, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 24, 2024 | Fail | |
| March 21, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 12, 2024 | Fail | |
| March 4, 2024 | Fail | |
| September 5, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 24, 2023 | Fail |
La Borinquena Grocery vs Roxbury
Roxbury runs 83% clean across 708 tracked restaurants — 559 clean, 69 mid, 49 cooked.
Against the 708 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 February 4, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.