Paradise

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 21, 2025
• address963 Commonwealth Av, Boston 02215

Is Paradise clean?

Paradise is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 21, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Paradise?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 21, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • Per the person in charge at the bars they use plastic cups to scoop ice from the ice bins for customers; provide food grade scoops with handles to prevent contamination.
  In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • Per the person in charge at the bars they use plastic cups to scoop ice from the ice bins for customers; provide food grade scoops with handles to prevent contamination.
• ⚠️(A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • In the kitchen at the sandwich refigerator all TCS foods are elevated above 47F: cut tomatoes cut lettuce cut onions sour cream blue cheese. Person in charge voluntarily discarded all TCS foods. Hold cold TCS foods at or below 41F.critical
  (A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • In the kitchen at the sandwich refigerator all TCS foods are elevated above 47F: cut tomatoes cut lettuce cut onions sour cream blue cheese. Person in charge voluntarily discarded all TCS foods. Hold cold TCS foods at or below 41F.
• ⚠️Temperature Measuring Devices-Functionality (Pf) • Location has no food thermometer on site inspector's calibrated thermometer was used to test TCS foods; provide a food thermometer.
  Temperature Measuring Devices-Functionality (Pf) • Location has no food thermometer on site inspector's calibrated thermometer was used to test TCS foods; provide a food thermometer.
• ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C) • The handle for the sandwich refigerator is missing; repair or replace.
  Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C) • The handle for the sandwich refigerator is missing; repair or replace.
• ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • At the three compartment sink there are no drain plugs to allow proper use of the three compartment sink; provide drain plugs.
  System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • At the three compartment sink there are no drain plugs to allow proper use of the three compartment sink; provide drain plugs.

When was Paradise last inspected?

Paradise has 28 inspections on record going back to October 1, 2009. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Paradise vs Allston

Allston runs 88% clean across 493 tracked restaurants — 415 clean, 35 mid, 23 cooked.

Against the 493 spots Cooked tracks in Allston, this one comes out cleaner than 12% of them.

Other spots in Allston

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• ✓ Color
  clean · July 7, 2009
• ✓ Mcdonald's
  clean · March 5, 2019
• ✓ Harvard Ave Donuts Llc
  clean · July 30, 2008
• ✓ Afc Sushi @ Shaws Supermarket No. 565
  clean · October 28, 2016
• ✓ Dunkin Donuts
  clean · January 12, 2026

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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 October 21, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.