• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMay 28, 2014 →
• address543 Dudley, Dorchester 02119

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Is Villa Sombrero Grocery Store clean?

Villa Sombrero Grocery Store is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 28, 2014. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Villa Sombrero Grocery Store?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 28, 2014, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Separation Segregation Cross Contaminationcritical
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded

Villa Sombrero Grocery Store inspection and administrative history

Villa Sombrero Grocery Store has 25 inspections on record going back to November 26, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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 May 28, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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