• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedFebruary 21, 2018 →
• address957 Dorchester Av, Dorchester 02125

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Is Tom English Cafe clean?

Tom English Cafe is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 21, 2018. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Tom English Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 21, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Premises Maintained

Tom English Cafe inspection and administrative history

Tom English Cafe has 30 inspections on record going back to May 30, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Tom English Cafe 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 13% 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 February 21, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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