The Gate Bar & Restaurant

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 23, 2018 →
• address3171 Washington St, Jamaica Plain 02130

Is The Gate Bar & Restaurant clean?

The Gate Bar & Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 23, 2018. 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 The Gate Bar & Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 23, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Container Labels
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Toilet Enclosed Clean
• ⚠️Outside Storage Improperly Maintained
• ⚠️Consumer Advisoriescritical

The Gate Bar & Restaurant inspection and administrative history

The Gate Bar & Restaurant has 7 inspections on record going back to May 2, 2017.

The Gate Bar & Restaurant vs Roxbury

Roxbury runs 83% clean across 689 tracked restaurants — 542 clean, 66 mid, 48 cooked.

Against the 689 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 January 23, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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