P & R ICE CREAM
1284 BLUE HILL AV, MATTAPAN, MA 02126
Last inspected Nov 3, 2026
Official source: Boston Public Health Commission (boston.gov) · All data sources
Failed. Did not meet health requirements at the latest inspection. Many failures are fixed and re-inspected within days — check the inspection date.
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The record, in plain English
CleanPlate holds 25 inspections on record for P & R ICE CREAM, spanning May 2022 to November 2026 — every one straight from Boston Public Health Commission.
It has held failed across its last two inspections.
The most recent inspection noted 6 violations, none of them critical.
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Inspection history
Nov 3, 2026
✕6 violations
- (A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf)
- Backflow Prevention Air Gap (P)
- System Maintained in Good Repair (C)
- Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)
- Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)
- Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C)
Oct 27, 2026
✕5 violations
- (A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf)
- Backflow Prevention Air Gap (P)
- System Maintained in Good Repair (C)
- Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)
- Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)
May 14, 2026
✓2 violations
- Controlling Pests (Pf)
- Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)
May 7, 2026
–2 violations
- Controlling Pests (Pf)
- Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)
Apr 14, 2026
✕10 violations
- Characteristics-Materials for Construction and Repair (C)
- Temperature Measuring Devices-Functionality (C)
- Cutting Surfaces (C)
- Handwashing Sinks-Numbers and Capacities (Pf)
- Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
- Intensity-Lighting (C)
- Controlling Pests (Pf)
- Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)
- Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)
- Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C)
Apr 7, 2026
✕10 violations
- Characteristics-Materials for Construction and Repair (C)
- Temperature Measuring Devices-Functionality (C)
- Cutting Surfaces (C)
- Handwashing Sinks-Numbers and Capacities (Pf)
- Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
- Intensity-Lighting (C)
- Controlling Pests (Pf)
- Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)
- Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)
- Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C)
Jul 30, 2025
✓3 violations
- Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
- Controlling Pests (Pf)
- Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C)
Jul 23, 2025
✕3 violations
- Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
- Controlling Pests (Pf)
- Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C)
Jan 14, 2025
✓2 violations
- System Maintained in Good Repair (P)
- Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C)
Jan 3, 2025
✕2 violations
- System Maintained in Good Repair (P)
- Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C)
Aug 16, 2024
✓1 violation
- Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C)
May 6, 2024
✓1 violation
- System Maintained in Good Repair (P)
Apr 26, 2024
✕2 violations
- System Maintained in Good Repair (P)
- Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C)
Apr 17, 2024
✕2 violations
- System Maintained in Good Repair (P)
- Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C)
Jan 3, 2024
–Aug 11, 2023
✓1 violation
- Controlling Pests (Pf)
Jul 27, 2023
✕1 violation
- Controlling Pests (Pf)
Jul 17, 2023
✕1 violation
- Controlling Pests (Pf)
Jun 29, 2023
✕6 violations
- (A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C)
- Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C)
- Temperature Measuring Devices-Functionality (C)
- Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
- Hand Drying Provision (Pf)
- Controlling Pests (Pf)
Jun 15, 2023
✕6 violations
- (A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C)
- Food Storage-Preventing Contamination from the Premises (C)
- Temperature Measuring Devices-Functionality (C)
- Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
- Hand Drying Provision (Pf)
- Controlling Pests (Pf)
Dec 8, 2022
✓6 violations
- (A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C)
- Temperature Measuring Devices-Functionality (C)
- Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
- Outer Openings Protected (C)
- Intensity-Lighting (C)
- Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C)
Nov 30, 2022
✕6 violations
- (A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C)
- Temperature Measuring Devices-Functionality (C)
- Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
- Outer Openings Protected (C)
- Intensity-Lighting (C)
- Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C)
Jun 16, 2022
✓3 violations
- Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C)
- Receptacles (C)
- Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)
Jun 1, 2022
✕8 violations
- Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C)
- Cutting Surfaces (C)
- Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
- Capacity-Quantity and Availability (Pf)
- Receptacles (C)
- Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
- Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)
- Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)
May 25, 2022
✕8 violations
- Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C)
- Cutting Surfaces (C)
- Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
- Capacity-Quantity and Availability (Pf)
- Receptacles (C)
- Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C)
- Maintaining Premises Unnecessary Items and Litter (C)
- Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)
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