• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedDecember 2, 2015 →
• address750 Adams St, Dorchester 02122

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Is Sonny's Restaurant clean?

Sonny's Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on December 2, 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 Sonny's Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 2, 2015, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Hot Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded

Sonny's Restaurant inspection and administrative history

Sonny's Restaurant has 25 inspections on record going back to April 16, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Sonny's Restaurant 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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• ✕ Gerard's Sandwich Shop
  cooked · February 12, 2016
• ✓ China Sky Restaurant
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• ✓ Eire Pub
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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 December 2, 2015. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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