Cooked?Pizza 21
- resultFail
- critical violations1
- last inspectedSeptember 25, 2009 →
- address547 Washington St, Brighton 02135
Is Pizza 21 clean?
Pizza 21 is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 25, 2009. 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 Pizza 21?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 25, 2009, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Utensil Storage
- ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
- ⚠️Dishwashng Facilities
- ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
- ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean
- ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
- ⚠️Installed and Maintained
- ⚠️Location Accessiblecritical
- ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
- ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
- 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleanedImproper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
Pizza 21 inspection and administrative history
Pizza 21 has 3 inspections on record going back to September 25, 2009.
December 30, 2012 Inspection not required
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →October 9, 2009 Administrative record filed
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →September 25, 2009 Fail
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View full inspection →Pizza 21 vs Brighton
Brighton runs 85% clean across 480 tracked restaurants — 395 clean, 37 mid, 33 cooked.
Against the 480 spots Cooked tracks in Brighton, 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.
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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 September 25, 2009. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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