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La Cuchara Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 24, 2023
- address381 Blue Hill Av, Dorchester 02121
Is La Cuchara Restaurant clean?
La Cuchara Restaurant is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 24, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at La Cuchara Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 24, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Warewashing Machine Data Plate Operation Specifications (C) • data plate specifications not accessible due to some areas are wrapped with proctection sticker provide.Warewashing Machine Data Plate Operation Specifications (C) • data plate specifications not accessible due to some areas are wrapped with proctection sticker provide.
- ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Repair cracked tiles near ware washing sink area.Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Repair cracked tiles near ware washing sink area.
When was La Cuchara Restaurant last inspected?
La Cuchara Restaurant has 23 inspections on record going back to October 23, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| March 24, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 16, 2023 | Fail | |
| March 9, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| July 26, 2022 | Pass | |
| July 19, 2022 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| March 1, 2022 | Pass | |
| February 22, 2022 | Fail | |
| November 19, 2021 | Pass |
La Cuchara Restaurant 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 19% 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 March 24, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.