• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedFebruary 5, 2021 →
• address3704 Washington St, Jamaica Plain 02130

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Is Oriental House clean?

Oriental House is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 5, 2021. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Oriental House?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 5, 2021, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Clean condition-Hands and Arms (P)critical
• ⚠️Walls and Ceilings Attachments (C)
• ⚠️(A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P)critical
• ⚠️Using a Handwashing Sink-Operation and Maintenance (Pf)
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf)
• ⚠️Removing Dead or Trapped Birds Insects Rodents and other Pest (C)
• ⚠️flagged at inspection

Oriental House inspection and administrative history

Oriental House has 39 inspections on record going back to July 2, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Oriental House vs Jamaica Plain

Jamaica Plain runs 76% clean across 182 tracked restaurants — 133 clean, 22 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 182 spots Cooked tracks in Jamaica Plain, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.

Other spots in Jamaica Plain

• ✓ J P Kitchen
  clean · August 15, 2018
• ✓ Fomu
  clean · March 13, 2023
• ✕ Simpli Bar N Bites
  mid · April 24, 2018
• ✓ Big Bites
  clean · August 17, 2016
• ✕ J P House Of Pizza
  cooked · June 7, 2021
• ✓ Bartlett Square Cafe
  clean · July 6, 2016

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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 February 5, 2021. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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