The Old Havana

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMarch 9, 2022 →
• address349 Centre St, Jamaica Plain 02130

Is The Old Havana clean?

The Old Havana is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 9, 2022. 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 Old Havana?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 9, 2022, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C)
• ⚠️(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf)
• ⚠️Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C)
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Use Limitation (C)
• ⚠️(A)(1) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P)critical
• ⚠️Sponges Use Limitation (C)
• ⚠️Ventilation Hood Systems Filters (C)
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️Grease Trap(C)
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
• ⚠️Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)
• ⚠️flagged at inspection

The Old Havana inspection and administrative history

The Old Havana has 34 inspections on record going back to December 23, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

The Old Havana vs Mission Hill

Mission Hill runs 79% clean across 242 tracked restaurants — 183 clean, 24 mid, 25 cooked.

Against the 242 spots Cooked tracks in Mission Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 3% of them.

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• ✓ Sushi Station
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• ✓ Sate Asian Grill - Roxbury
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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.

Read the Boston ratings guide →

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 March 9, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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