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Merkato Variety Store
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 4, 2020
- address1127 Harrison Av, Roxbury 02119
Is Merkato Variety Store clean?
Merkato Variety Store is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 4, 2020. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Merkato Variety Store?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on November 4, 2020. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Merkato Variety Store last inspected?
Merkato Variety Store has 45 inspections on record going back to April 6, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 14, 2022 | — | |
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| March 25, 2021 | — | |
| November 4, 2020 | Pass | |
| February 18, 2020 | Pass | |
| February 6, 2020 | Fail | |
| August 7, 2019 | Pass | |
| July 24, 2019 | Fail | |
| January 29, 2019 | Pass | |
| January 16, 2019 | Fail | |
| October 23, 2018 | — |
Merkato Variety Store 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 November 4, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.