• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJanuary 13, 2017 →
• address572 Washington St, Dorchester 02124

📸 get the free app — point your camera down a block, grades float over the storefronts

Is Saints Diner clean?

Saints Diner is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 13, 2017. 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 Saints Diner?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 13, 2017, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Test Kit Provided
• ⚠️Adequate Number Frequency Vermin Proof
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded
• ⚠️PIC Knowledgecritical
• ⚠️Consumer Advisoriescritical

Saints Diner inspection and administrative history

Saints Diner has 62 inspections on record going back to May 4, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Saints Diner 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 2% of them.

Other spots in Dorchester

• ✓ St. Mark School
  cooked · January 29, 2009
• ✓ Dunkin Donuts
  clean · August 22, 2022
• ✓ St. Ann's School
  cooked · September 22, 2008
• ✕ Rosedale Grocery
  cooked · November 24, 2014
• ✓ Charlie's House Of Pizza
  clean · June 7, 2019
• ✓ Walgreen's No. 1847
  clean · January 9, 2025

See every restaurant inspection in Dorchester →

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.

Read the Boston ratings guide →

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 January 13, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

check your own block 📸

Cooked covers 10 cities on official inspection data — see who's clean, mid, or cooked near you.