The Lowdown
2731 IRIS AVENUE, BOULDER, CO 80304
Last inspected May 4, 2026
Official source: Boulder County Public Health (bouldercounty.gov) · All data sources
Passed. Met health requirements at the latest inspection. Some health departments report pass/fail instead of letter grades.
Order for delivery
The record, in plain English
Boulder County Public Health reports one inspection on record for The Lowdown, from May 2026.
The most recent inspection noted 6 violations, none of them critical.
Every sentence above is computed directly from the official record — CleanPlate adds no opinions. How our grading works →
Inspection history
May 4, 2026
✓6 violations
- 3-304.15 Gloves, Use Limitation. (A) If used, single-use gloves shall be used for only one task such as working with ready-to-eat food or with raw animal food, used for no other purpose, and discarded when damaged or soiled, or when interruptions occur in the operation. (see #39)
- 8. Hands cleaned and properly washed. 2-301.14 When to Wash: Immediately before engaging in food preparation including working with exposed food, clean equipment and utensils, and unwrapped single-service and single use articles and:(A) After touching bare human body parts other than clean hands and clean, exposed portions of arms;(B) After using the toilet room; (C) After caring for or handling service animals; (D) After coughing, sneezing, using a handkerchief or disposable tissue, using tobacco products, eating, or drinking; (E) After handling soiled equipment or utensils, (F) During food preparation, as often as necessary to remove soil and contamination and to prevent cross contamination when changing tasks; (G) When switching between working with raw food and working with ready to eat food; (H) Before donning gloves to initiate a task that involves working with food; and (I) After engaging in other activities that contaminate the hands.
- 39. Contamination prevented during food preparation, storage & display. Observed food handler with single use gloves on, preparing food on cook line, picked up soiled item from floor, then left kitchen, opened walk-in refrigerator with same gloves, picked up unwrapped, ready to eat celery and carrot sticks from walk-in refrigerator with same soiled gloves, returned to kitchen then put the ready to eat celery and carrots on serving plate, with same soiled gloves. 3-307.11Food must be protected from contamination. Person in charge provided education, the contaminated food was discarded. The food handler removed soiled gloves , washed hands and donned new gloves to work with ready to eat food.
- 35 Approved thawing Methods used. Observed Reduced Oxygen Packaged (ROP) frozen fish, thawing in the walk-in refrigerator still sealed in original ROP packaging. 3-501.13 (E)(1) REDUCED OXYGEN PACKAGED FISH that bears a label indicating that it is to be kept frozen until time of use shall be removed from the reduced oxygen environment (1) Prior to its thawing under refrigeration. Person in charge corrected by using sissors and opened ROP packaging on thawing fish.
- Wiping Cloths, Use Limitation. observed a number of wet wiping cloths on counters and other surfaces, not stored in sanitizer buckets. 3-304.14 (B) (1) Cloths in-use for wiping counters and other equipment surfaces shall be held between uses in a chemical sanitizer solution.
- 25. Consumer advisory provided for raw/undercooked food. Observed menu lacking proper identification of items under the consumer advisory. 3-603.11 Consumption of Animal Foods that are Raw, Undercooked, or Not Otherwise Processed to Eliminate Pathogens. Identification of the animal-derived foods by asterisking them to a footnote that states that the items are may be served raw or undercooked. Person in charge agrees to add proper identification to menu.
More in Boulder
Proudly display this grade
Run The Lowdown? Add the live CleanPlate badge to your website — it links to this page and updates automatically with every new inspection.
<a href="https://www.cleanplateus.com/boulder/the-lowdown--FA0002246"><img src="https://www.cleanplateus.com/api/badge/boulder/FA0002246" width="300" height="58" alt="CleanPlate health grade"></a>
Source: Boulder County Public Health (bouldercounty.gov). Data shown unmodified from the official government record. CleanPlate is an independent service, not affiliated with any government agency. See something wrong? Report a data issue.
