• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedFebruary 27, 2020 →
• address148 Bowdoin St, Dorchester 02121

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Is Tropical Island Restaurant clean?

Tropical Island Restaurant is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 27, 2020. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Tropical Island Restaurant?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 3 code checks as passed on February 27, 2020.

Tropical Island Restaurant inspection and administrative history

Tropical Island Restaurant has 45 inspections on record going back to December 24, 2009. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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 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.

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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 27, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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