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 Ingredientscritical
• ⚠️Safe Food Handeling Instructions
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Number Convenientcritical

Pena's Market inspection and administrative history

Pena's Market has 26 inspections on record going back to November 21, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Pena's Market vs South End

South End runs 83% clean across 677 tracked restaurants — 500 clean, 56 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 677 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 December 31, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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