Tropical Food Mart

• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedOctober 22, 2026 →
• address4545 Washington St, Roslindale 02131

Is Tropical Food Mart clean?

Tropical Food Mart is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 22, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Tropical Food Mart?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
• ⚠️Prohibiting Animals (Pf)

Tropical Food Mart inspection and administrative history

Tropical Food Mart has 51 inspections on record going back to March 6, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Tropical Food Mart vs West Roxbury

West Roxbury runs 86% clean across 198 tracked restaurants — 163 clean, 15 mid, 11 cooked.

Against the 198 spots Cooked tracks in West Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 October 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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