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Tropical Grocery
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 15, 2018
- address67 Hancock St, Dorchester 02125
Is Tropical Grocery clean?
Tropical Grocery is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 15, 2018. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Tropical Grocery?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 15, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals • Evidence of fruit flies around bananas provide pest control report to service fruit flies.Insects Rodents Animals • Evidence of fruit flies around bananas provide pest control report to service fruit flies.
When was Tropical Grocery last inspected?
Tropical Grocery has 20 inspections on record going back to March 27, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| November 15, 2018 | Pass | |
| November 9, 2018 | — | |
| November 2, 2018 | Fail | |
| October 31, 2018 | Pass | |
| October 16, 2018 | Fail | |
| January 23, 2018 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2018 | — | |
| January 10, 2018 | — | |
| January 3, 2018 | Fail | |
| September 7, 2017 | Pass | |
| August 17, 2017 | Fail |
Tropical Grocery vs Roxbury
Roxbury runs 83% clean across 708 tracked restaurants — 559 clean, 69 mid, 49 cooked.
Against the 708 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated November 15, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.