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Raphael Caribbean Cuisine
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedAugust 17, 2023
- address487 Washington St, Dorchester 02124
Is Raphael Caribbean Cuisine clean?
Raphael Caribbean Cuisine is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 17, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Raphael Caribbean Cuisine?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 17, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Eating Drinking or Using Tobacco (C) • Discontinue allowing staff to eat behind the counte / food prep areas - sit out front as discussedEating Drinking or Using Tobacco (C) • Discontinue allowing staff to eat behind the counte / food prep areas - sit out front as discussed
- ⚠️Food-Contact Surfaces-Cleanability (Pf) • Discard all visibly compromised cutting boards and wooden utensils with visible splintered burn marks - use commercial grade utensils as discussedFood-Contact Surfaces-Cleanability (Pf) • Discard all visibly compromised cutting boards and wooden utensils with visible splintered burn marks - use commercial grade utensils as discussed
- ⚠️Ventilation Hood Systems Filters (C) • Clean vents from heavy char marks where neededVentilation Hood Systems Filters (C) • Clean vents from heavy char marks where needed
- ⚠️Service Sink (C) • Ensure the barriers are in place during food prepService Sink (C) • Ensure the barriers are in place during food prep
- ⚠️Grease Trap(C) • Resurface areas visible soiled and odorousGrease Trap(C) • Resurface areas visible soiled and odorous
- ⚠️Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C) • Clean floors throughout the kitchen including under all prep tables and equipment from all visible food spills stains and soilsSurface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C) • Clean floors throughout the kitchen including under all prep tables and equipment from all visible food spills stains and soils
- ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • Clean to remove the bicycle in the back kitchen area and all other belongings not affiliated with the kitchen / restaurantMaintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C) • Clean to remove the bicycle in the back kitchen area and all other belongings not affiliated with the kitchen / restaurant
- ⚠️Drying Mops (C) • Elevate all soiled mops off the floors after use - store inside the bucket with bleach as discussedDrying Mops (C) • Elevate all soiled mops off the floors after use - store inside the bucket with bleach as discussed
When was Raphael Caribbean Cuisine last inspected?
Raphael Caribbean Cuisine has 44 inspections on record going back to April 18, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 17, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 14, 2023 | Fail | |
| April 5, 2023 | — | |
| March 29, 2023 | Fail | |
| September 15, 2022 | Pass | |
| September 7, 2022 | — | |
| August 29, 2022 | Fail | |
| March 28, 2022 | — | |
| March 17, 2022 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| November 16, 2021 | Pass | |
| November 5, 2021 | Fail |
Raphael Caribbean Cuisine vs Dorchester
Dorchester runs 85% clean across 542 tracked restaurants — 445 clean, 31 mid, 47 cooked.
Against the 542 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 August 17, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.