• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 10, 2008 →
• address179 Washington St, Dorchester 02121

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Is Santo Domingo Restaurant & Cafeteria clean?

Santo Domingo Restaurant & Cafeteria is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 10, 2008. 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 Santo Domingo Restaurant & Cafeteria?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 10, 2008, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Container Labels
• ⚠️Hot Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Clean Cloths Hair Restraint
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• ⚠️Outside Storage Improperly Maintained
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings

Santo Domingo Restaurant & Cafeteria inspection and administrative history

Santo Domingo Restaurant & Cafeteria has 6 inspections on record going back to September 14, 2007.

Santo Domingo Restaurant & Cafeteria vs Roxbury

Roxbury runs 83% clean across 689 tracked restaurants — 542 clean, 66 mid, 48 cooked.

Against the 689 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 September 10, 2008. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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