Portillo's Food Market

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJuly 15, 2014 →
• address60 Maverick St, East Boston 02128

Is Portillo's Food Market clean?

Portillo's Food Market is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 15, 2014. 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 Portillo's Food Market?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 15, 2014, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Container Labels
• ⚠️Separation Segregation Cross Contaminationcritical
• ⚠️Handling of Food & Ice
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors

Portillo's Food Market inspection and administrative history

Portillo's Food Market has 4 inspections on record going back to January 8, 2014.

Portillo's Food Market vs North End

North End runs 91% clean across 698 tracked restaurants — 578 clean, 33 mid, 26 cooked.

Against the 698 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 2% of them.

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• ✓ Taste Of Eastie
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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 July 15, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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