Porters Bar & Grill

• official resultFail
• resultFail
• inspection typeEating & Drinking
• failed findings2
• critical findings0

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Failed findings

• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
  Inspector note: Coffin freezer door in disrepair in back area. Repair. • Cookline handsink adjacent to panini press without splash guard. Install smooth durable non porous easily cleanable splash guard.
  code 15-4-202.16* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
  Inspector note: Several broken tiles on kitchen floor. Repair.
  code 36-6-501.11-.12* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail

Checks marked passed

• ✓Location Accessiblecritical
  Inspector note: Handsink near warewash area obstructed with glass door cooler. Handsink at bar area obstructed with glass cleaner sanitizer bucket and bucket of pens. Ensure free access to handwashing facilities at all times.
  code 31-5-204/05.11*** · critical food-safety factorstatus: Pass
• ✓Food Contact Surfaces Clean
  Inspector note: Panini press with heavy caked on food soils. Clean to remove.
  code 22-4-601/602.11** · serious findingstatus: Pass
• ✓Clean Cloths Hair Restraint
  Inspector note: Observed food worker without hair restraint. Provide.
  code 13-2-304/402.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass
• ✓Dishwashng Facilities
  Inspector note: Bar glass washer not registering presence of chorine sanitizer at the time of inspection. Repair. Alternative means for warewashing in kitchen at low temp machine registering 50PPM for chlorine sanitizer to be used until bar unit repaired.
  code 16-4-501.11/.15* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass
• ✓Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
  Inspector note: Inside all cookline reach in refrigerated units with buildup of food soils. Thoroughly clean inside all refrigerated units. Shelving under prep table at kitchen cookline with soils. Clean to remove. Shelving under char broiler at cookline with buidup of ash and grease. Clean to remove.
  code 23-4-602.13* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass
• ✓premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Official wording: Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
  Inspector note: Walls behind and around cookline with grease buildup. Clean to remove. Ceiling in walkin cooler with dust buildup. Clean to remove.
  code 37-6-501.11-.12* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Fail on June 17, 2016: 2 findings recurred. 6 previous findings did not recur.

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This record comes from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division. Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

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