Cooked?Little Pickins
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 18, 2020 →
- address196 Quincy St, Dorchester 02121
Is Little Pickins clean?
Little Pickins is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on December 18, 2020. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Little Pickins?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on December 18, 2020. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
Little Pickins inspection and administrative history
Little Pickins has 5 inspections on record going back to May 15, 2019.
January 18, 2023 Inspection not required
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →March 15, 2022 Inspection not required
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →December 18, 2020 Pass
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View full inspection →October 18, 2019 Pass
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View full inspection →May 15, 2019 Pass
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View full inspection →Little Pickins vs Roxbury
Roxbury runs 83% clean across 689 tracked restaurants — 542 clean, 66 mid, 48 cooked.
Against the 689 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 December 18, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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