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Stefano's Pizza
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedAugust 18, 2025
- address863 Washington St, Dorchester 02124
Is Stefano's Pizza clean?
Stefano's Pizza is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 18, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Stefano's Pizza?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 18, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Walls and Ceilings Attachments (C) • Hood tag expired in April 2025 / Contact hood cleaning company ASAP. Hood vent covers with visible grease / Clean to removeWalls and Ceilings Attachments (C) • Hood tag expired in April 2025 / Contact hood cleaning company ASAP. Hood vent covers with visible grease / Clean to remove
When was Stefano's Pizza last inspected?
Stefano's Pizza has 63 inspections on record going back to July 18, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 18, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 6, 2025 | Fail | |
| February 4, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 24, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| June 18, 2024 | Pass | |
| June 4, 2024 | Fail | |
| February 2, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 22, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| August 23, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 15, 2023 | Fail |
Stefano's Pizza vs Mattapan
Mattapan runs 77% clean across 299 tracked restaurants — 217 clean, 38 mid, 26 cooked.
Against the 299 spots Cooked tracks in Mattapan, this one comes out cleaner than 22% 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 August 18, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.