Pressed Boston

• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedFebruary 22, 2019
• address120 Charles St, Boston 02114

Is Pressed Boston clean?

Pressed Boston is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 22, 2019. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Pressed Boston?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 22, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Labeling of Ingredients • Labels of ingrediants missing from pre packaged items in the display case.Provide proper labels.critical
  Labeling of Ingredients • Labels of ingrediants missing from pre packaged items in the display case.Provide proper labels.
• ⚠️Test Kit Provided • Provide chlorine test kit. Test at low temp machine done with inspectors kit.
  Test Kit Provided • Provide chlorine test kit. Test at low temp machine done with inspectors kit.
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize • Upon inspection there was no sanitizer set up in the work/prep locations.Provide proper sanitizer with wiping cloths. PIC correced on site.
  Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize • Upon inspection there was no sanitizer set up in the work/prep locations.Provide proper sanitizer with wiping cloths. PIC correced on site.
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors • Clean floor behind/beside dish machine to remove built up soils & debris.
  Improper Maintenance of Floors • Clean floor behind/beside dish machine to remove built up soils & debris.
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings • Wall behind handwash sink observed soiled.Clean to remove soils.
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings • Wall behind handwash sink observed soiled.Clean to remove soils.
• ⚠️Premises Maintained • Out of service ice machine located in the rear prep location.Discard.
  Premises Maintained • Out of service ice machine located in the rear prep location.Discard.
• ⚠️PIC Performing Duties • 8-303-20 2019 health Permit not paid.Provide proper 2019 health permit payment to the health division 4th floor 1010 Mass avecritical
  PIC Performing Duties • 8-303-20 2019 health Permit not paid.Provide proper 2019 health permit payment to the health division 4th floor 1010 Mass ave

When was Pressed Boston last inspected?

Pressed Boston has 9 inspections on record going back to April 9, 2018.

Pressed Boston vs Beacon Hill

Beacon Hill runs 85% clean across 149 tracked restaurants — 123 clean, 10 mid, 11 cooked.

Against the 149 spots Cooked tracks in Beacon Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 1% of them.

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• ✓ Suffolk Universtiy Atrium Cafe Kiosk 1St Fl.
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• ✓ Peregrine
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• ✕ Zen Restaurant
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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 22, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.