Some MIT-Area Restaurants Unclean
Cambridge restaurant inspections may have you thinking twice the next time you pick up a sandwich from your favorite MIT lunch joint. While the city does not require that restaurants post health inspection ratings prominently in their facilities, it maintains an online databases of health inspection results, including those eateries located on campus.
The following inspection data summarizes data culled from these databases for MIT-area restaurants inspected in the past year.
For more information, see http://www.cambridgema.gov/inspectional/searchInspections.cfm. After the jump: is it safe to keep eating burritos at Anna’s? (Short answer: NO VIOLATIONS! Delicious.)
Anna’s Taqueria
84 Massachusetts Ave.
Inspected on 11/24/2008
No violations.
Bertucci’s
799 Main St.
Inspected on 7/21/2009
Four violations, including improper repair or cleaning methods.
Bio Cafe
31 Ames St.
Inspected on 9/19/2008
Five violations, including improper cleaning methods.
Bosworth’s
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Inspected on 12/18/2008
No violations.
Cafe 4
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Inspected on 12/18/2008
No violations.
Cafe Spice
84 Massachusetts Ave.
Inspected on 12/11/2008
No violations.
Domino’s Pizza
1 Broadway
Inspected on 2/12/2009
No violations.
Goosebeary’s (food truck)
Inspected on 4/21/2009
Four violations including improper hand cleanliness practices.
Re-inspected on 5/4/2009
No violations.
Jose’s Mexican (food truck)
Inspected on 4/21/2009
Three violations, including unclean non-food surfaces.
LaVerde’s Market
84 Massachusetts Ave.
Inspected on 11/24/2008
Eleven violations, including evidence of insects, rodents, animals, or outer openings and improper cleaning methods.
MIT Faculty Club
50 Memorial Dr.
Inspected on 4/16/2009
Eight violations, including unclean food surfaces and improper hot or cold food handling.
Royal Bengal
313 Massachusetts Ave.
Inspected on 3/16/2009
Eight violations, including improper hot or cold food handling.
Re-inspected on 3/23/2009
Two violations, including improper hot or cold food handling.
Royal East
782 Main St.
Inspected on 5/29/2009
Seven violations, including evidence of insects, rodents, animals or outer openings and unclean food surfaces.
Sepal Food
84 Massachusetts Ave.
Inspected on 12/11/2008
Ten violations, including improper cooking temperatures, evidence of insects, rodents, animals, or outer openings, and improper cleaning methods.
Shinkansen
84 Massachusetts Ave.
Inspected on 12/4/2008
Six violations, including evidence of insects, rodents, animals, or outer openings and improper dishwashing facilities.
Steam Cafe
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Inspected on 12/18/2008
No violations.
Subway
84 Massachusetts Ave.
Inspected on 12/4/2008
Five violations, including evidence of insects, rodents, animals, or outer openings.
Thailand Cafe
302 Massachusetts Ave.
Inspected on 6/1/2009
Five violations, including unclean non-food surfaces.