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Tequila Mexican Grill
- resultFail
- critical violations1
- last inspectedNovember 7, 2008
- address53 Bromfield St, Boston 02108
Is Tequila Mexican Grill clean?
Tequila Mexican Grill is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 7, 2008. 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 Tequila Mexican Grill?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 7, 2008, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Toxic Items: Original Container • Remove all panting supplies from kitchencriticalToxic Items: Original Container • Remove all panting supplies from kitchen
- ⚠️Premises Maintained • Remove all unnecessary articles from storage in basementPremises Maintained • Remove all unnecessary articles from storage in basement
- ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • clean interior of all reach insNon-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • clean interior of all reach ins
When was Tequila Mexican Grill last inspected?
Tequila Mexican Grill has 5 inspections on record going back to December 17, 2007.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 12, 2008 | closed by the city | |
| November 7, 2008 | Fail | |
| April 17, 2008 | Pass | |
| April 10, 2008 | Fail | |
| December 17, 2007 | — |
Tequila Mexican Grill vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 November 7, 2008. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.