Tacos El Charro

• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedAugust 16, 2013 →
• address349 Centre St, Jamaica Plain 02130

Is Tacos El Charro clean?

Tacos El Charro is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 16, 2013. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at Tacos El Charro?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 16, 2013, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Cold Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Food Thermometers Provided
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Three Compartment Sink
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• ⚠️Floors Designed Constructed Installed
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• ⚠️Walls/Ceilings Designed Constructed Installed
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Soiled Linen Storage
• ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical

Tacos El Charro inspection and administrative history

Tacos El Charro has 11 inspections on record going back to May 18, 2012.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 4 of these 6 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Tacos El Charro vs Mission Hill

Mission Hill runs 77% clean across 245 tracked restaurants — 180 clean, 28 mid, 27 cooked.

Against the 245 spots Cooked tracks in Mission Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 August 16, 2013. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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