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La Cuchara Restaurant
- resultFail
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJuly 16, 2026
- address381 Blue Hill Av, Dorchester 02121
Is La Cuchara Restaurant clean?
La Cuchara Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 16, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at La Cuchara Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 16, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Preparation (C) • Hand sink and prep sink installed. No air gap for prep sink. Provide air gap.Food Preparation (C) • Hand sink and prep sink installed. No air gap for prep sink. Provide air gap.
When was La Cuchara Restaurant last inspected?
La Cuchara Restaurant has 16 inspections on record going back to March 8, 2024. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 16, 2026 | Fail | |
| May 26, 2026 | Fail | |
| May 19, 2026 | — | |
| February 27, 2026 | Fail | |
| February 20, 2026 | Fail | |
| October 9, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 1, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 5, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 28, 2025 | Fail | |
| February 4, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 27, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 31, 2024 | — |
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 16% 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 July 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.