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La Union Market And Butchery
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 21, 2025
- address105 Chelsea St, East Boston 02128
Is La Union Market And Butchery clean?
La Union Market And Butchery is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 21, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at La Union Market And Butchery?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 21, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Labels (Pf) • Several raw packaged meat products without Safe Food Handling labels. Provide.Food Labels (Pf) • Several raw packaged meat products without Safe Food Handling labels. Provide.
- ⚠️Compliance with Food Law (P) • Empanadas pork belly for hot holding with unclear origin . No hand sink near serving line as well. Remove and discontinue selling.criticalCompliance with Food Law (P) • Empanadas pork belly for hot holding with unclear origin . No hand sink near serving line as well. Remove and discontinue selling.
When was La Union Market And Butchery last inspected?
La Union Market And Butchery has 18 inspections on record going back to May 21, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 21, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 14, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 6, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 30, 2024 | Fail | |
| December 6, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 18, 2023 | Pass | |
| October 18, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 12, 2022 | Fail | |
| March 25, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | Fail | |
| February 1, 2021 | Pass |
La Union Market And Butchery 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 March 21, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.