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Portillo Food Market
- resultFail
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 28, 2023
- address44 Brooks St, East Boston 02128
Is Portillo Food Market clean?
Portillo Food Market is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 28, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Portillo Food Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 28, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Child license has not been paid for / please pay ASAPChild license has not been paid for / please pay ASAP
When was Portillo Food Market last inspected?
Portillo Food Market has 38 inspections on record going back to May 20, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| February 28, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| February 4, 2022 | Pass | |
| January 25, 2022 | Fail | |
| August 17, 2021 | Pass | |
| August 10, 2021 | Fail | |
| April 28, 2021 | Pass | |
| April 21, 2021 | Fail | |
| December 7, 2020 | Pass | |
| November 30, 2020 | Fail |
Portillo Food Market vs East Boston
East Boston runs 92% clean across 529 tracked restaurants — 472 clean, 19 mid, 21 cooked.
Against the 529 spots Cooked tracks in East Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 28, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.