• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 4, 2015 →
• address305 Meridian St, East Boston 02128

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Is Saigon Restaurant clean?

Saigon Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 4, 2015. 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 Saigon Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 4, 2015, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Test Kit Provided
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Location Accessiblecritical
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage

Saigon Restaurant inspection and administrative history

Saigon Restaurant has 16 inspections on record going back to March 14, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Saigon Restaurant vs East Boston

East Boston runs 91% clean across 526 tracked restaurants — 465 clean, 20 mid, 24 cooked.

Against the 526 spots Cooked tracks in East Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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.

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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 August 4, 2015. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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