The Grand Canal

• official resultFail
• resultFail
• inspection typeEating & Drinking
• failed findings1
• critical findings0

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Failed findings

• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Official wording: Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
  Inspector note: Delivery bulk head door in kitchen with visible daylight emitting through from outside. Seal to prevent entrance of pests.
  code 37-6-501.11-.12* · lower-severity findingstatus: Fail

Checks marked passed

• ✓PIC Performing Dutiescritical
  Inspector note: 8-303-20 bFailure to adhere to conditions of holding a permit for non renewal of Health Permit. Renew health permit immediately at 1010 Massachusetts Avenue fourth floor health division.
  code M-2-103.11*** · critical food-safety factorstatus: Pass
• ✓Equipment Thermometers
  Inspector note: No inside equipment thermometers for cookline reach in refrigerated units. Provide. Unit temperatures recorded at 38F at the time of inspection.
  code 17-4-204.112/.115* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass
• ✓Clean Equipment & Utensils Storage
  Inspector note: Clean equipment being stored in clean equipment room together with shoes personal articles and empty 5 gallon chemical buckets. Wash/rinse/sanitize/air dry clean equipment invert and store away from potential sources of contamination.
  code 24-4-903.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass
• ✓Installed and Maintained
  Inspector note: ceiling spinkler valve pipe in kitchen area with small leak. Repair.
  code 29-5-201/02.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass
• ✓Floors Designed Constructed Installed
  Inspector note: Holes around pipes at front bar. Seal. floors under and around bar equipment soiled. Clean to remove. Floors under cookline equipment with heavy grease buildup and debri. Floors in clean equipment storage room with grease buildup around waste oil containers clean to remove. Floors in clean equipment storage room and walkin cooler with worn floor surfaces. Reseal to maintain smooth durable non porous and easily cleanable.
  code 36-6-201.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass
• ✓Inadequate Lighting
  Inspector note: Clean equipment storage room with missing light bulb replace.
  code 38-6-303.11* · lower-severity findingstatus: Pass

What changed since the previous inspection?

Compared with Fail on January 15, 2016: 1 finding recurred. 6 previous findings did not recur.

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This record comes from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division. Cooked keeps the official result and wording separate from its plain-English explanation so you can verify what the inspector actually published.

Source: Analyze Boston.