• resultFail
• critical violations4
• last inspectedJune 20, 2008 →
• address522 River St, Mattapan 02126

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Is Tastee Jamaica Restaurant clean?

Tastee Jamaica Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 20, 2008. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Tastee Jamaica Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 20, 2008, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Hot Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Adequate Handwashing/Where/When/Howcritical
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Cleancritical
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️Location Accessiblecritical
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Mop Sink not Provided

Tastee Jamaica Restaurant inspection and administrative history

Tastee Jamaica Restaurant has 4 inspections on record going back to June 20, 2008.

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 June 20, 2008. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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