• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedSeptember 25, 2018 →
• address645 River St, Mattapan 02136

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Is World's Best Food Market clean?

World's Best Food Market is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 25, 2018. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at World's Best Food Market?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 25, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Labeling of Ingredientscritical
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Equipment Thermometers
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Number Convenientcritical
• ⚠️Toilet Enclosed Clean
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded
• ⚠️Premises Maintained

World's Best Food Market inspection and administrative history

World's Best Food Market has 19 inspections on record going back to June 24, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

World's Best Food Market vs Mattapan

Mattapan runs 76% clean across 294 tracked restaurants — 211 clean, 40 mid, 25 cooked.

Against the 294 spots Cooked tracks in Mattapan, this one comes out cleaner than 3% of them.

Other spots in Mattapan

• ✓ La Bamba Market
  clean · May 20, 2011
• ✓ Tropic Food Market
  clean · February 17, 2026
• ✓ Spukies Pizza Restaurant
  clean · October 2, 2025
• ✓ La Belle Capoise Restaurant
  clean · April 14, 2009
• ✓ Fernandez Cousin
  clean · October 16, 2013
• ? St. Matthew School
  not rated · December 30, 2012

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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 September 25, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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