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Mela Restaurant
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 2, 2026
- address574 Tremont St, Roxbury 02118
Is Mela Restaurant clean?
Mela Restaurant is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 2, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Mela Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 2, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Service Sink (C) • No mop sink on site.Provide (PIC stating mop water is disposed in toilet)Service Sink (C) • No mop sink on site.Provide (PIC stating mop water is disposed in toilet)
When was Mela Restaurant last inspected?
Mela Restaurant has 60 inspections on record going back to February 7, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 2, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 13, 2026 | Fail | |
| January 5, 2026 | Fail | |
| September 30, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 23, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 3, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 27, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 5, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 28, 2025 | Fail | |
| January 8, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 6, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 18, 2024 | Fail |
Mela Restaurant vs South End
South End runs 81% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 498 clean, 63 mid, 54 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 February 2, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.