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Essential Herb & Juice Cafe

Latest: PASS August 6, 2025

🍽️ Cuisine: Cafe

📍 Neighborhood: Dorchester

🚇 Nearest Transit: Shawmut (Red Line)

Address
501B WASHINGTON ST
Dorchester, MA 02124
Inspection History
24 inspections
7 failures
License
License #435990
Last inspected: August 6, 2025

Inspection History (24 most recent)

PASS August 6, 2025 at 6:04 PM
0 violations
PASS March 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
0 violations
PASS W/ CONDITIONS October 31, 2024 at 7:15 PM
0 violations
PASS August 2, 2024 at 2:51 PM
0 violations
PASS February 26, 2024 at 1:36 PM
2 violations
590.004/4-302.14-PF - Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf): Provide test kits for the chlorine used in the 3 bay sink | L1 - : 2024 health permit has not been paid for / Please make payment ASAP
PASS W/ CONDITIONS February 21, 2024 at 5:29 PM
2 violations
590.004/4-302.14-PF - Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf): Provide test kits for the chlorine used in the 3 bay sink | L1 - : 2024 health permit has not been paid for / Please make payment ASAP
FAIL February 14, 2024 at 5:04 PM
2 violations
590.004/4-302.14-PF - Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf): Provide test kits for the chlorine used in the 3 bay sink | L1 - : 2024 health permit has not been paid for / Please make payment ASAP
PASS December 20, 2023 at 4:55 PM
3 violations
590.004/4-202.16-C - Nonfood-Contact Surfaces (C): Door to the first basement coffin style freezer is damaged. Repair or replace. | 590.004/4-302.14-PF - Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf): No test strips available at the time of the inspe...
FAIL December 8, 2023 at 6:47 PM
3 violations
590.004/4-202.16-C - Nonfood-Contact Surfaces (C): Door to the first basement coffin style freezer is damaged. Repair or replace. | 590.004/4-302.14-PF - Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf): No test strips available at the time of the inspe...
PASS February 9, 2023 at 5:07 PM
0 violations
PASS W/ CONDITIONS January 18, 2023 at 3:24 PM
0 violations
PASS December 1, 2022 at 4:20 PM
2 violations
590.002(C)/2-102.12-C - (A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C): No one on site with a current Food Safety Certification. Provide documentation of at least oone full time employee who has been enrolled in some form fo Food Safety course for the ...
FAIL November 21, 2022 at 4:58 PM
2 violations
590.002(C)/2-102.12-C - (A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C): No one on site with a current Food Safety Certification. Provide documentation of at least oone full time employee who has been enrolled in some form fo Food Safety course for the ...
PASS May 18, 2022 at 2:28 PM
1 violation
590.002(D)/2-103.11-PF - (A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf):
PASS March 28, 2022 at 5:03 PM
3 violations
590.002(D)/2-103.11-PF - (A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf): At the time of the inspeciton the 2022 Health Permit had not been paid. Address and ensure payment has been made with any additional fees that have accrued. | 590.004/4-202.16-C - Nonf...
FAIL March 17, 2022 at 3:07 PM
3 violations
590.002(D)/2-103.11-PF - (A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf): At the time of the inspeciton the 2022 Health Permit had not been paid. Address and ensure payment has been made with any additional fees that have accrued. | 590.004/4-202.16-C - Nonf...
PASS W/ CONDITIONS March 15, 2022 at 7:22 PM
0 violations
PASS January 3, 2022 at 4:35 PM
5 violations
590.002(D)/2-103.11-PF - (A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf): PIC (owner) will discontinue to have allow anyone to use the kitchen for any other reason than to cook foof for this location. | 590.003/3-501.13-C - Thawing (C): Raw fish thawing at r...
FAIL December 20, 2021 at 4:58 PM
5 violations
590.002(D)/2-103.11-PF - (A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf): PIC (owner) will discontinue to have allow anyone to use the kitchen for any other reason than to cook foof for this location. | 590.003/3-501.13-C - Thawing (C): Raw fish thawing at r...
PASS August 17, 2021 at 3:06 PM
4 violations
590.003/3-501.16-P1 - (A)(1) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P): Salt fish in hot holding unit at 69F. Please reheat to 165F before putting in hot holding unit. | 590.004/4-202.13-C - "V" Threads Use Limi...
FAIL July 29, 2021 at 3:37 PM
4 violations
590.003/3-501.16-P1 - (A)(1) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P): Salt fish in hot holding unit at 69F. Please reheat to 165F before putting in hot holding unit. | 590.004/4-202.13-C - "V" Threads Use Limi...
PASS W/ CONDITIONS January 13, 2021 at 3:23 PM
3 violations
590.002/2-501.11-PF - Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events (Pf): PIC will need to provide a vomit clean up kit for the location. It is also called a blood pathogen clean up kit. Hand out will be attached to emailed inspection. | 590.003/3-302...
FAIL January 5, 2021 at 6:32 PM
3 violations
590.002/2-501.11-PF - Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events (Pf): PIC will need to provide a vomit clean up kit for the location. It is also called a blood pathogen clean up kit. Hand out will be attached to emailed inspection. | 590.003/3-302...
PASS October 9, 2020 at 3:26 PM
0 violations
Data sourced directly from Boston Inspectional Services Department