• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 17, 2013 →
• address1 Beacon St, Boston 02108

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Is Patriot News Inc. (1 Beacon St.) clean?

Patriot News Inc. (1 Beacon St.) is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 17, 2013. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Patriot News Inc. (1 Beacon St.)?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 17, 2013, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Premises Maintained

Patriot News Inc. (1 Beacon St.) inspection and administrative history

Patriot News Inc. (1 Beacon St.) has 18 inspections on record going back to September 20, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Patriot News Inc. (1 Beacon St.) vs Downtown

Downtown runs 92% clean across 993 tracked restaurants — 859 clean, 47 mid, 32 cooked.

Against the 993 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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.

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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 May 17, 2013. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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