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Our Neighborhood Variety
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 17, 2014
- address185 Howard Av, Dorchester 02125
Is Our Neighborhood Variety clean?
Our Neighborhood Variety is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 17, 2014. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Our Neighborhood Variety?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 17, 2014, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Container Labels • Provide labels for all packaged foods.Food Container Labels • Provide labels for all packaged foods.
- ⚠️Food Protection • Separate cat food from human consumption food.Food Protection • Separate cat food from human consumption food.
- ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design • Provide additional scoops for dispensing slush.Food Contact Surfaces Design • Provide additional scoops for dispensing slush.
- ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • Clean interior of cold unit to remove spills. unit at 38F-okNon-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • Clean interior of cold unit to remove spills. unit at 38F-ok
When was Our Neighborhood Variety last inspected?
Our Neighborhood Variety has 20 inspections on record going back to May 21, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| April 17, 2014 | Pass | |
| April 10, 2014 | Fail | |
| August 19, 2013 | Pass | |
| August 15, 2013 | Fail | |
| March 20, 2013 | Pass | |
| March 13, 2013 | Fail | |
| March 6, 2013 | Fail | |
| October 19, 2012 | Pass | |
| October 12, 2012 | Fail | |
| May 18, 2012 | Pass | |
| May 11, 2012 | Fail |
Our Neighborhood Variety 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.
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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 April 17, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.