The Fairmount Grille

• resultFail
• critical violations3
• last inspectedSeptember 6, 2018
• address81 Fairmount Av, Hyde Park 02136

Is The Fairmount Grille clean?

The Fairmount Grille is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 6, 2018. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at The Fairmount Grille?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 6, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Protection • remove tape from ice machine exterior panel/elevate food bags off the floor.
  Food Protection • remove tape from ice machine exterior panel/elevate food bags off the floor.
• ⚠️Food Utensil Storage
  Food Utensil Storage
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design • provide a knife dispencor/replace all scored cutting boards/replace dented or defective equipment.
  Food Contact Surfaces Design • provide a knife dispencor/replace all scored cutting boards/replace dented or defective equipment.
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces • replace missing door handle at 3 dr./replace all defective doorgaskets/resel rusty shelving throughout/replce defective shelving at cook line/provide guard inbetween handsink and prep sink/replace door at mop sink/reseal rusty canopener.
  Non-Food Contact Surfaces • replace missing door handle at 3 dr./replace all defective doorgaskets/resel rusty shelving throughout/replce defective shelving at cook line/provide guard inbetween handsink and prep sink/replace door at mop sink/reseal rusty canopener.
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers • repair pressure gauge at dishmachine.
  Equipment Thermometers • repair pressure gauge at dishmachine.
• ⚠️Test Kit Provided
  Test Kit Provided
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
  Wiping Cloths Clean Sanitize
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean • clean can opener.
  Food Contact Surfaces Clean • clean can opener.
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • clean all doorgaskets/clean and degrease all shelving and equipment/clean all sinks/clean mop sink.
  Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean • clean all doorgaskets/clean and degrease all shelving and equipment/clean all sinks/clean mop sink.
• ⚠️Hot and Cold Water • provide hot and cold water inder pressure at restroom hadsink and bar handsink.critical
  Hot and Cold Water • provide hot and cold water inder pressure at restroom hadsink and bar handsink.
• ⚠️Adequate Number Frequency Vermin Proof • provide covers for all trash receptacles throughout.
  Adequate Number Frequency Vermin Proof • provide covers for all trash receptacles throughout.
• ⚠️Floors Designed Constructed Installed • replace all cracked floor tiles/clean floor in walkin/regrout floor tiles in kitchen/clean all floor drain covers/clean exterior ground drain.
  Floors Designed Constructed Installed • replace all cracked floor tiles/clean floor in walkin/regrout floor tiles in kitchen/clean all floor drain covers/clean exterior ground drain.
• ⚠️Walls/Ceilings Designed Constructed Installed • clean ceiling tiles/clean walls/clean pipes/clean filter at hood/seal exposed ceiling with exposed insulation in storage room/repair walls and baseboards/seal doorframes/clean ceiling throughout.
  Walls/Ceilings Designed Constructed Installed • clean ceiling tiles/clean walls/clean pipes/clean filter at hood/seal exposed ceiling with exposed insulation in storage room/repair walls and baseboards/seal doorframes/clean ceiling throughout.
• ⚠️Anti-Choking
  Anti-Choking
• ⚠️PIC Knowledge • renew the expired serve safe cert.critical
  PIC Knowledge • renew the expired serve safe cert.
• ⚠️Consumer Advisories • provide consumer advisory to all menus with reminder and disclosure/provide allergin cert.critical
  Consumer Advisories • provide consumer advisory to all menus with reminder and disclosure/provide allergin cert.

When was The Fairmount Grille last inspected?

The Fairmount Grille has 20 inspections on record going back to May 31, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

The Fairmount Grille vs Hyde Park

Hyde Park runs 77% clean across 181 tracked restaurants — 132 clean, 20 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 181 spots Cooked tracks in Hyde Park, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.

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• ✕ The Briar Rose
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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 6, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.