• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedApril 15, 2016 →
• address89 Broad St, Boston 02110

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Is Nix's Mate clean?

Nix's Mate is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 15, 2016. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Nix's Mate?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 15, 2016, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Food Container Labels
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Clean Equipment & Utensils Storage
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors

Nix's Mate inspection and administrative history

Nix's Mate has 14 inspections on record going back to August 1, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Nix's Mate vs Downtown

Downtown runs 92% clean across 993 tracked restaurants — 859 clean, 47 mid, 32 cooked.

Against the 993 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 2% of them.

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• ✕ Qdoba Mexican Restaurant
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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 April 15, 2016. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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