Cooked?Melo's Market
- resultFail
- critical violations2
- last inspectedDecember 5, 2008 →
- address331 Centre St, Jamaica Plain 02130
Is Melo's Market clean?
Melo's Market is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on December 5, 2008. 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 Melo's Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 5, 2008, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Protection
- ⚠️Dishwashng Facilities
- ⚠️Test Kit Provided
- ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Cleancritical
- ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean
- ⚠️Toilet Enclosed Clean
- ⚠️Floors Designed Constructed Installed
- ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
- 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleanedImproper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
- ⚠️Rooms and Equipment Vented
- ⚠️Premises Maintained
- ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical
Melo's Market inspection and administrative history
Melo's Market has 5 inspections on record going back to December 5, 2008.
June 13, 2022 Inspection not required
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →December 31, 2008 Administrative record filed
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →December 5, 2008 Fail
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View full inspection →December 5, 2008 Inspection not required
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →December 5, 2008 Inspection not required
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →Melo's Market vs Mission Hill
Mission Hill runs 79% clean across 242 tracked restaurants — 183 clean, 24 mid, 25 cooked.
Against the 242 spots Cooked tracks in Mission Hill, 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 December 5, 2008. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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