• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMay 29, 2012 →
• address148 State St, Boston 02109

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Is Mcfadden's Saloon clean?

Mcfadden's Saloon is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 29, 2012. 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 Mcfadden's Saloon?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 29, 2012, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Dishwashng Facilities
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Cleancritical
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Single Service Articles Stored Dispensed
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• ⚠️Toilet Enclosed Clean
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded
• ⚠️Inadequate Lighting
• ⚠️Premises Maintained
• ⚠️Anti-Choking
• ⚠️PIC Knowledgecritical

Mcfadden's Saloon inspection and administrative history

Mcfadden's Saloon has 24 inspections on record going back to November 2, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Mcfadden's Saloon vs North End

North End runs 91% clean across 698 tracked restaurants — 578 clean, 33 mid, 26 cooked.

Against the 698 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 May 29, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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