• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMarch 25, 2009 →
• address1296 Blue Hill Av, Mattapan 02126

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Is Picasso Restaurant clean?

Picasso Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 25, 2009. 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 Picasso Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 25, 2009, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Mop Sink not Provided
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Cleancritical
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Handling of Food & Ice
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Person in charge Assignedcritical

Picasso Restaurant inspection and administrative history

Picasso Restaurant has 9 inspections on record going back to July 12, 2007.

Picasso Restaurant vs Mattapan

Mattapan runs 76% clean across 294 tracked restaurants — 211 clean, 40 mid, 25 cooked.

Against the 294 spots Cooked tracks in Mattapan, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 March 25, 2009. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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