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Portillo Brothers Market
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 26, 2026
- address60 Maverick St, East Boston 02128
Is Portillo Brothers Market clean?
Portillo Brothers Market is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 26, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Portillo Brothers Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 26, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️2026 health permit has not been paid for / Please make payment ASAP2026 health permit has not been paid for / Please make payment ASAP
When was Portillo Brothers Market last inspected?
Portillo Brothers Market has 32 inspections on record going back to July 23, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 26, 2026 | Pass | |
| February 20, 2026 | Fail | |
| May 22, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 10, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 10, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 3, 2024 | Fail | |
| February 21, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 14, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| December 28, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 13, 2023 | — | |
| March 3, 2023 | Pass |
Portillo Brothers Market vs North End
North End runs 88% clean across 717 tracked restaurants — 579 clean, 37 mid, 40 cooked.
Against the 717 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 February 26, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.