• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedNovember 24, 2014 →
• address547 Washington St, Dorchester 02124

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Is Rosedale Grocery clean?

Rosedale Grocery is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 24, 2014. 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 Rosedale Grocery?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 24, 2014, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Approved Sourcecritical
• ⚠️Cold Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Outside Storage Improperly Maintained
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded

Rosedale Grocery inspection and administrative history

Rosedale Grocery has 21 inspections on record going back to February 26, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Rosedale Grocery vs Dorchester

Dorchester runs 85% clean across 525 tracked restaurants — 429 clean, 33 mid, 44 cooked.

Against the 525 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 4% of them.

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• ✕ Windy City At Adams Village
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• ✓ Anh Hong Restaurant
  clean · November 29, 2021
• ✕ Vien Dong Far East Supermarket
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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 November 24, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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