• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJuly 26, 2017 →
• address154 Harvard Av, Allston 02134

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Is The Hot Spot clean?

The Hot Spot is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 26, 2017. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at The Hot Spot?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 4 code checks as passed on July 26, 2017.

The Hot Spot inspection and administrative history

The Hot Spot has 5 inspections on record going back to August 26, 2015.

The Hot Spot vs Allston

Allston runs 88% clean across 492 tracked restaurants — 414 clean, 34 mid, 24 cooked.

Against the 492 spots Cooked tracks in Allston, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 July 26, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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