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Sauce On Bowdoin
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 22, 2025
- address203 Bowdoin St, Dorchester 02122
Is Sauce On Bowdoin clean?
Sauce On Bowdoin is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 22, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Sauce On Bowdoin?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️(B) and (C) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (C) • Clean sides and inbetween equipment to remove visible soil.(B) and (C) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (C) • Clean sides and inbetween equipment to remove visible soil.
- ⚠️Maintaining Refuse Areas and Enclosures (C) • Clean loose trash near dumpster area and along fence.Maintaining Refuse Areas and Enclosures (C) • Clean loose trash near dumpster area and along fence.
When was Sauce On Bowdoin last inspected?
Sauce On Bowdoin has 15 inspections on record going back to July 31, 2023. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 22, 2025 | Pass | |
| May 14, 2025 | Fail | |
| January 21, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 10, 2025 | Fail | |
| November 6, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| October 30, 2024 | Fail | |
| October 22, 2024 | Fail | |
| March 5, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2024 | Fail | |
| February 12, 2024 | Fail | |
| December 4, 2023 | Pass |
Sauce On Bowdoin vs Dorchester
Dorchester runs 85% clean across 542 tracked restaurants — 445 clean, 31 mid, 47 cooked.
Against the 542 spots Cooked tracks in Dorchester, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 May 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.