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Pena's Market
- resultFail
- critical violations2
- last inspectedDecember 31, 2014
- address1053 Tremont St, Mission Hill 02120
Is Pena's Market clean?
Pena's Market is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on December 31, 2014. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Pena's Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 31, 2014, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Labeling of IngredientscriticalLabeling of Ingredients
- ⚠️Safe Food Handeling Instructions • provide safe food handling labels for all packaged meats...Safe Food Handeling Instructions • provide safe food handling labels for all packaged meats...
- ⚠️Food Protection • elevate all foods 6 to 8 inches off the floor...Food Protection • elevate all foods 6 to 8 inches off the floor...
- ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces • repair or replace defective doorgasket....Non-Food Contact Surfaces • repair or replace defective doorgasket....
- ⚠️Number Convenient • provide a handsink at rear meat packaging area..criticalNumber Convenient • provide a handsink at rear meat packaging area..
When was Pena's Market last inspected?
Pena's Market has 26 inspections on record going back to November 21, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| January 7, 2015 | — | |
| December 31, 2014 | Fail | |
| June 19, 2014 | Pass | |
| June 5, 2014 | Fail | |
| October 22, 2013 | — | |
| March 5, 2013 | Pass | |
| February 25, 2013 | Fail | |
| December 30, 2012 | — | |
| September 18, 2012 | Pass | |
| September 11, 2012 | Fail | |
| March 5, 2012 | Pass |
Pena's Market vs South End
South End runs 81% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 498 clean, 63 mid, 54 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 December 31, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.