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Lala Luncheonette Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 6, 2015
- address792 Washington St, Dorchester 02124
Is Lala Luncheonette Restaurant clean?
Lala Luncheonette Restaurant is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 6, 2015. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Lala Luncheonette Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 6, 2015, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings • Hood and Ventilation Tags with a past expiration date of 9/5/15. Address and provide up to date Tags prior to the re-inspection being conducted. Referral being made to the City of Boston Fire Department for expired tags.Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings • Hood and Ventilation Tags with a past expiration date of 9/5/15. Address and provide up to date Tags prior to the re-inspection being conducted. Referral being made to the City of Boston Fire Department for expired tags.
When was Lala Luncheonette Restaurant last inspected?
Lala Luncheonette Restaurant has 38 inspections on record going back to May 10, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| October 6, 2015 | Pass | |
| September 21, 2015 | — | |
| September 11, 2015 | Fail | |
| September 10, 2015 | Fail | |
| June 19, 2015 | — | |
| June 11, 2015 | Fail | |
| February 12, 2015 | — | |
| February 3, 2015 | Fail | |
| November 20, 2014 | Pass | |
| November 13, 2014 | Fail | |
| November 5, 2014 | Fail |
Lala Luncheonette Restaurant vs Dorchester
Dorchester runs 85% clean across 542 tracked restaurants — 445 clean, 31 mid, 47 cooked.
Against the 542 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 October 6, 2015. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.