• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedNovember 4, 2020 →
• address1127 Harrison Av, Roxbury 02119

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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.

Merkato Variety Store inspection and administrative history

Merkato Variety Store has 45 inspections on record going back to April 6, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Merkato Variety Store vs South End

South End runs 83% clean across 677 tracked restaurants — 500 clean, 56 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 677 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 November 4, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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