Pikalox

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJanuary 13, 2025
• address3160 Washington St, Jamaica Plain 02130

Is Pikalox clean?

Pikalox is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 13, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Pikalox?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 13, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Packaged and Unpackaged Food-Separation Packaging and Segregation (P) • Raw chicken observed stored above RTE tray of cake. Discontinue. (corrected on site)critical
  Packaged and Unpackaged Food-Separation Packaging and Segregation (P) • Raw chicken observed stored above RTE tray of cake. Discontinue. (corrected on site)
• ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf) • Multiple chicken and beef empanadas mix observed with expired date marking. Per PIC the mixtures were removed from the freezer the night before. Reviewed date marking with PIC. Date mark made/discard date in all containers.
  Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf) • Multiple chicken and beef empanadas mix observed with expired date marking. Per PIC the mixtures were removed from the freezer the night before. Reviewed date marking with PIC. Date mark made/discard date in all containers.
• ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Interior of ice machine downstairs and ice holder upstairs observed visible soiled shelving inside walking refrigerator unit observed heavily soiled with visible build up interior of double door front of the house refrigeration unit observed soiled interior of walking freezer observed soiled. Clean and sanitze to remove.
  (A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Interior of ice machine downstairs and ice holder upstairs observed visible soiled shelving inside walking refrigerator unit observed heavily soiled with visible build up interior of double door front of the house refrigeration unit observed soiled interior of walking freezer observed soiled. Clean and sanitze to remove.
• ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • Front of the house dump sink observed leaking. Repair
  System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • Front of the house dump sink observed leaking. Repair
• ⚠️Drying Mops (C) • Observed soiled mop stored in the food prep area. Discontinue.
  Drying Mops (C) • Observed soiled mop stored in the food prep area. Discontinue.

When was Pikalox last inspected?

Pikalox has 29 inspections on record going back to May 25, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Pikalox vs Roxbury

Roxbury runs 83% clean across 708 tracked restaurants — 559 clean, 69 mid, 49 cooked.

Against the 708 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 January 13, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.