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Villas Market
- resultFail
- critical violations1
- last inspectedFebruary 12, 2024
- address152 Sumner St, East Boston 02128
Is Villas Market clean?
Villas Market is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 12, 2024. 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 Villas Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 12, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (P) • Hot water faucet broken at toilet restroom RepaircriticalSystem Maintained in Good Repair (P) • Hot water faucet broken at toilet restroom Repair
- ⚠️Hand Drying Provision (Pf) • Handsink at the toilet without papertowels and no signage. ProvideHand Drying Provision (Pf) • Handsink at the toilet without papertowels and no signage. Provide
- ⚠️Health Permit not renewed for 2024. Renew.Health Permit not renewed for 2024. Renew.
When was Villas Market last inspected?
Villas Market has 20 inspections on record going back to September 1, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| February 12, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| March 23, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2022 | Fail | |
| November 24, 2021 | Pass | |
| January 29, 2021 | — | |
| October 9, 2020 | — | |
| October 29, 2019 | Pass | |
| October 22, 2018 | Pass |
Villas Market vs North End
North End runs 88% clean across 717 tracked restaurants — 579 clean, 37 mid, 40 cooked.
Against the 717 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 February 12, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.