• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedNovember 19, 2009 →
• address149 Stoughton St, Dorchester 02125

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Is Tropical Island Restaurant clean?

Tropical Island Restaurant is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 19, 2009. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Tropical Island Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 19, 2009, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Test Kit Provided
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• ⚠️Outside Storage Improperly Maintained
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded
• ⚠️Inadequate Lighting

Tropical Island Restaurant inspection and administrative history

Tropical Island Restaurant has 12 inspections on record going back to April 19, 2007.

Tropical Island Restaurant 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 3% 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 November 19, 2009. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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