• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMarch 12, 2012 →
• address238 Meridian St, East Boston 02128

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Is La Esperanza Market clean?

La Esperanza Market is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 12, 2012. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at La Esperanza Market?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 2 code checks as passed on March 12, 2012.

La Esperanza Market inspection and administrative history

La Esperanza Market has 16 inspections on record going back to August 9, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

La Esperanza Market vs East Boston

East Boston runs 91% clean across 526 tracked restaurants — 465 clean, 20 mid, 24 cooked.

Against the 526 spots Cooked tracks in East Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated March 12, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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