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Sugar Bowl
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 17, 2021
- address857 Dorchester Av, Dorchester 02125
Is Sugar Bowl clean?
Sugar Bowl is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 17, 2021. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Sugar Bowl?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 17, 2021, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Temperature Measuring Devices Manual and Mechanical Warewashing (Pf) • No irreversible thermometer or thermal strips available on site to confirm rinse temperature of high temperature dish machine. Provide either strips or thermometer. ISD measured rinse as 172F at the plate.Temperature Measuring Devices Manual and Mechanical Warewashing (Pf) • No irreversible thermometer or thermal strips available on site to confirm rinse temperature of high temperature dish machine. Provide either strips or thermometer. ISD measured rinse as 172F at the plate.
When was Sugar Bowl last inspected?
Sugar Bowl has 25 inspections on record going back to March 7, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 14, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| September 17, 2021 | Pass | |
| September 10, 2021 | Fail | |
| June 3, 2021 | — | |
| November 4, 2020 | Pass | |
| April 9, 2019 | Pass | |
| April 8, 2019 | Fail | |
| August 14, 2018 | — | |
| May 16, 2017 | — | |
| August 18, 2016 | Pass | |
| August 11, 2016 | — |
Sugar Bowl vs South Boston
South Boston runs 91% clean across 192 tracked restaurants — 163 clean, 9 mid, 8 cooked.
Against the 192 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 September 17, 2021. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.