• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 19, 2010 →
• address71 Broad St, Boston 02109

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Is Peter's Delicatessen clean?

Peter's Delicatessen is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 19, 2010. 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 Peter's Delicatessen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 19, 2010, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Hot Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings

Peter's Delicatessen inspection and administrative history

Peter's Delicatessen has 21 inspections on record going back to October 26, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Peter's Delicatessen 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 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 October 19, 2010. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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