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Zest Mediterranean Grill
- resultFail
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 29, 2018
- address1076 Boylston St, Boston 02115
Is Zest Mediterranean Grill clean?
Zest Mediterranean Grill is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 29, 2018. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Zest Mediterranean Grill?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 29, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Hot Holding • Chicken kabobs at front service counter 122F Rice at 131F for an undetermined amount of time. Ensure products are maintained at 140F or above. Voluntarily discarded by PICcriticalHot Holding • Chicken kabobs at front service counter 122F Rice at 131F for an undetermined amount of time. Ensure products are maintained at 140F or above. Voluntarily discarded by PIC
- ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces • Hot hold unit not properly maintaining temperature- Repair or replaceNon-Food Contact Surfaces • Hot hold unit not properly maintaining temperature- Repair or replace
- ⚠️Dishwashng Facilities • Dishwasher with 200ppm chlorine at time of reinspection. Not in use Repair to ensure sanitizer maintained at 50-100ppm • Sanitizer in low temperature dishwasher at 200ppm. Not in use at time of inspection. Repair to ensure sanitizer is maintained at 50-100ppm.Dishwashng Facilities • Dishwasher with 200ppm chlorine at time of reinspection. Not in use Repair to ensure sanitizer maintained at 50-100ppm • Sanitizer in low temperature dishwasher at 200ppm. Not in use at time of inspection. Repair to ensure sanitizer is maintained at 50-100ppm.
- ⚠️Test Kit Provided • No test kit available for chlorine dishwasher- ProvideTest Kit Provided • No test kit available for chlorine dishwasher- Provide
- ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean • Multiple food contact surfaces including can opener blade and food slicer with soils- CleanFood Contact Surfaces Clean • Multiple food contact surfaces including can opener blade and food slicer with soils- Clean
When was Zest Mediterranean Grill last inspected?
Zest Mediterranean Grill has 20 inspections on record going back to August 11, 2014. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| June 29, 2018 | Fail | |
| June 22, 2018 | Fail | |
| January 19, 2018 | — | |
| January 10, 2018 | Fail | |
| September 7, 2017 | Pass | |
| March 16, 2017 | Pass | |
| March 7, 2017 | Fail | |
| October 3, 2016 | Pass | |
| September 13, 2016 | Fail | |
| February 24, 2016 | Pass | |
| February 9, 2016 | Fail |
Zest Mediterranean Grill vs Back Bay
Back Bay runs 81% clean across 519 tracked restaurants — 417 clean, 46 mid, 50 cooked.
Against the 519 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 20% 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 June 29, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.