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Rootaste
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 11, 2024
- address196 Quincy St, Dorchester 02125
Is Rootaste clean?
Rootaste is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 11, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Rootaste?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on June 11, 2024. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Rootaste last inspected?
Rootaste has 7 inspections on record going back to October 27, 2021.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 11, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 15, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 12, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 6, 2023 | Fail | |
| June 15, 2022 | Pass | |
| April 5, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 27, 2021 | Pass |
Rootaste vs Roxbury
Roxbury runs 83% clean across 708 tracked restaurants — 559 clean, 69 mid, 49 cooked.
Against the 708 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 June 11, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.