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Marketplace Cafe & Take Away
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 20, 2026
- address240 Mount Vernon St, Dorchester 02125
Is Marketplace Cafe & Take Away clean?
Marketplace Cafe & Take Away is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 20, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Marketplace Cafe & Take Away?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Miscellaneous Sources of Contamination (C) • Discontinue to store equipment on the grease trap. Store properly.Miscellaneous Sources of Contamination (C) • Discontinue to store equipment on the grease trap. Store properly.
- ⚠️Standards of Identity (C) • All grab and go product has to be labeled with whats in the container and not just the date.Standards of Identity (C) • All grab and go product has to be labeled with whats in the container and not just the date.
- ⚠️Nonfood-Contact Surfaces (C) • As discussed please clean the top of the dishwasher exterior of the ice machine shelves in the kitchen area.Nonfood-Contact Surfaces (C) • As discussed please clean the top of the dishwasher exterior of the ice machine shelves in the kitchen area.
- ⚠️Ventilation Hood Systems Filters (C) • PIC will need to clean the filters on the cooking line. Hood sticker good until March 2026Ventilation Hood Systems Filters (C) • PIC will need to clean the filters on the cooking line. Hood sticker good until March 2026
- ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • PIC will clean the floor under and behind cooking equipment. Please clean the wall behind the cooking line and three bay sink.Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • PIC will clean the floor under and behind cooking equipment. Please clean the wall behind the cooking line and three bay sink.
When was Marketplace Cafe & Take Away last inspected?
Marketplace Cafe & Take Away has 70 inspections on record going back to June 6, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 20, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 12, 2026 | Fail | |
| September 8, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 3, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 27, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 27, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 20, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 31, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 21, 2024 | Fail | |
| May 16, 2024 | Pass | |
| May 8, 2024 | Fail | |
| November 22, 2023 | Pass |
Marketplace Cafe & Take Away vs South Boston
South Boston runs 91% clean across 192 tracked restaurants — 163 clean, 9 mid, 8 cooked.
Against the 192 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 January 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.