No. 1 Chinese Restaurant

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedNovember 7, 2019 →
• address914 Morton St, Dorchester 02126

Is No. 1 Chinese Restaurant clean?

No. 1 Chinese Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 7, 2019. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at No. 1 Chinese Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 7, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events (Pf)
• ⚠️Packaged and Unpackaged Food-Separation Packaging and Segregation (P)critical
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Use Limitation (C)
• ⚠️Thawing (C)
• ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf)
• ⚠️Effectiveness-Hair Restraints (C)
• ⚠️Ventilation Hood Systems Adequacy (C)
• ⚠️Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf)
• ⚠️Cutting Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Using a Handwashing Sink-Operation and Maintenance (Pf)
• ⚠️Maintaining Refuse Areas and Enclosures (C)
• ⚠️Walls and Ceilings Attachments (C)
• ⚠️Light Bulbs Protective Shielding (C)
• ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)

No. 1 Chinese Restaurant inspection and administrative history

No. 1 Chinese Restaurant has 34 inspections on record going back to April 25, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 4 of these 6 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

No. 1 Chinese Restaurant vs Mattapan

Mattapan runs 78% clean across 294 tracked restaurants — 214 clean, 36 mid, 26 cooked.

Against the 294 spots Cooked tracks in Mattapan, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.

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• ✕ Picasso 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.

Read the Boston ratings guide →

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 7, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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