• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedNovember 4, 2008 →
• address685 Washington St, Boston 02116

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Is Penang Restaurant clean?

Penang Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 4, 2008. 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 Penang Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 4, 2008, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Food Utensil Storage
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Location Accessiblecritical
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings

Penang Restaurant inspection and administrative history

Penang Restaurant has 5 inspections on record going back to October 11, 2007.

Penang Restaurant vs Chinatown

Chinatown runs 86% clean across 297 tracked restaurants — 245 clean, 22 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 297 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 November 4, 2008. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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