• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 2, 2025 →
• address1270 River St, Hyde Park 02136

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Is Papa Gino's clean?

Papa Gino's is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 2, 2025. 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 Papa Gino's?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (P)critical
• ⚠️Outdoor Storage Surface (C)
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)

Papa Gino's inspection and administrative history

Papa Gino's has 36 inspections on record going back to December 31, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Papa Gino's vs Hyde Park

Hyde Park runs 78% clean across 180 tracked restaurants — 132 clean, 20 mid, 18 cooked.

Against the 180 spots Cooked tracks in Hyde Park, this one comes out cleaner than 11% of them.

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• ✓ Roundhead Brewing Company
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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 September 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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