Orinoco:A Latin Kitchen

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJanuary 23, 2024
• address477 Shawmut Av, Boston 02118

Is Orinoco:A Latin Kitchen clean?

Orinoco:A Latin Kitchen is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 23, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Orinoco:A Latin Kitchen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 23, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C) • Observed squeeze bottles stored without labels of identification. Provide a label on all squeeze bottles with the common name of food item stored inside.
  Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C) • Observed squeeze bottles stored without labels of identification. Provide a label on all squeeze bottles with the common name of food item stored inside.
• ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Observed mold-like substances inside ice machine. Clean to remove all mold-like substances.
  (A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Observed mold-like substances inside ice machine. Clean to remove all mold-like substances.
• ⚠️Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • Observed hood sticker expired December 2023. PIC contacted Hood cleaning company while on site; Scheduled 1/17/24
  Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • Observed hood sticker expired December 2023. PIC contacted Hood cleaning company while on site; Scheduled 1/17/24
• ⚠️Post the current 2024 Health permit for the food establishment in a conspicuous place for the consumer
  Post the current 2024 Health permit for the food establishment in a conspicuous place for the consumer

When was Orinoco:A Latin Kitchen last inspected?

Orinoco:A Latin Kitchen has 61 inspections on record going back to February 8, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Orinoco:A Latin Kitchen vs South End

South End runs 81% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 498 clean, 63 mid, 54 cooked.

Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated January 23, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.