• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJuly 6, 2017 →
• address1296 Blue Hill Av, Mattapan 02126

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Is Lelene's Restaurant clean?

Lelene's Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 6, 2017. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Lelene's Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 6, 2017, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Hot Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Test Kit Provided
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical

Lelene's Restaurant inspection and administrative history

Lelene's Restaurant has 42 inspections on record going back to September 2, 2009. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Lelene's Restaurant vs Mattapan

Mattapan runs 76% clean across 294 tracked restaurants — 211 clean, 40 mid, 25 cooked.

Against the 294 spots Cooked tracks in Mattapan, this one comes out cleaner than 4% of them.

Other spots in Mattapan

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• ✓ Mary's Bakes And Cakes
  clean · October 1, 2009
• ✓ Primo Market
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• ✕ Super Dollar
  mid · October 16, 2018
• ✓ Cafe Juice Up
  clean · July 6, 2018
• ✓ Rent All Of Boston
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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 July 6, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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