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Murl's Kitchen
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 14, 2025
- address143 Washington St, Dorchester 02121
Is Murl's Kitchen clean?
Murl's Kitchen is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 14, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Murl's Kitchen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 14, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Hood and Ventilation tags with a past expiration date from June 2025. Address and provide and provide up to date tags for the re-inspection.Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Hood and Ventilation tags with a past expiration date from June 2025. Address and provide and provide up to date tags for the re-inspection.
When was Murl's Kitchen last inspected?
Murl's Kitchen has 26 inspections on record going back to September 14, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2026 | — | |
| October 14, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 3, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 26, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 23, 2025 | — | |
| April 14, 2025 | Fail | |
| November 20, 2024 | — | |
| June 13, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 6, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 8, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| March 29, 2023 | Pass |
Murl's Kitchen vs Roxbury
Roxbury runs 83% clean across 708 tracked restaurants — 559 clean, 69 mid, 49 cooked.
Against the 708 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 17% of them.
Other spots in Roxbury
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 October 14, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.