Boathouse Grill
215 Water St, Port Perry ON L9L 1C4 · Food Safety Inspections
Inspection summary
Boathouse Grill has been inspected 6 times by Durham Region Health Department since July 15, 2025. The most recent inspection, on July 16, 2026, found no infractions.
1 of 6 inspections on record found no infractions at all. In the past 12 months there were 2 inspections with 5 infractions recorded. The higher-risk findings here relate to: Handwashing and staff hygiene, Cleaning and sanitizing and Food temperature control.
The number of infractions per inspection has stayed roughly the same over time.
What these findings mean
Health authorities word their violations differently, so we group them by what they mean for food safety. Higher-risk findings are the ones inspectors treat as critical, because they can directly make someone sick.
Handwashing and staff hygieneHigher risk
Hands are the main way germs like norovirus move from people to food. Inspectors look for stocked, accessible handwashing sinks, staff washing hands when required, hair restraints, and sick employees being kept away from food. Gaps here can spread illness quickly.
Recorded 2 times across 2 separate inspections, most recently on July 15, 2026. For example:
Hand washing basin with supplies of hot and cold water, soap in a dispenser and single-use towels
Cleaning and sanitizingHigher risk
Anything that touches food, such as cutting boards, dishes and utensils, must be washed, rinsed and sanitized. Inspectors check dishwasher temperatures, sanitizer strength and how wiping cloths are stored. Poor sanitizing lets bacteria survive from one use to the next.
Recorded 2 times across 2 separate inspections, most recently on July 15, 2026. For example:
Food contact surfaces washed / rinsed / sanitized after each use and following any operations when contamination may have occurred
Food temperature controlHigher risk
Bacteria multiply fastest between about 4 °C and 60 °C (40 °F to 140 °F). Inspectors check that cold food stays cold, hot food stays hot, cooked food is cooled quickly, and that staff have accurate thermometers. Temperature problems are one of the most common causes of food poisoning, so these are treated as critical findings.
Recorded 2 times across 2 separate inspections, most recently on July 16, 2025. For example:
Mechanical dishwashing: Wash / rinse water clean, water temperature, timing cycles, sanitizer
Protecting food from contaminationHigher risk
This covers how food is stored, prepared and displayed: raw meat kept away from ready-to-eat food, food covered and stored off the floor, and nothing dripping or splashing into it. Cross-contamination from raw to cooked food is a direct route for salmonella and E. coli.
Recorded once on July 15, 2025. For example:
Food protected from potential contamination and/or adulteration
Chemicals and toxic substancesHigher risk
Cleaning products, sanitizers and pesticides must be labelled and stored away from food and food-contact surfaces. Inspectors flag chemicals that could end up in food, as well as pest treatments applied without proper supervision.
Recorded once on July 15, 2025. For example:
Food contact surfaces properly designed, constructed, installed, maintained, located (smooth, non-absorbent, cleanable, corrosion resistant and non-toxic)
About this data
These results come from Durham Region Health Department, which inspects food premises and other public facilities in this area. We republish the authority's public disclosure data and refresh it regularly; the official record is the final word.
6 inspections
- Re-Inspection
0 infractions
- Routine
5 infractions
- Separate hand washing basin provided for food handlers
- * Fail to ensure hand washing basin is easily accessible
- * Fail to use basin only for hand washing of employees
- Operator to ensure designated hand washing basin is only used for hand washing
- Hand washing basin with supplies of hot and cold water, soap in a dispenser and single-use towels
- * Fail to provide adequate supplies (single-use towels, soap in a dispenser) for the hand washing basin in the food preparation area
- Operator to ensure hand washing basins are adequately supplied
- Equipment, non-food contact surfaces and linen are maintained, designed, constructed, installed and accessible for cleaning
- * Fail to maintain all equipment/non-food contact surfaces are in clean and in good repair
- * Fail to ensure filters in the ventilation system are maintained in a clean and sanitary manner
- Operator to ensure that all equipment/non-food contact surfaces are maintained clean and in good repair
- Operator to ensure filters in the ventilation system are maintained in a clean and sanitary manner
- Food contact surfaces washed / rinsed / sanitized after each use and following any operations when contamination may have occurred
- * Fail to ensure food contact surfaces are cleaned & sanitized after each use or as often as necessary
- Operator to ensure all food contact surfaces are properly cleaned & sanitized
- Sanitary maintenance of and provision of required supplies in staff / public washroom facilities
- * Fail to equip facility with a supply of soap or detergent
- Operator to ensure the washroom facilities are properly supplied with soap/detergent, single-service towels or hot air dryer, toilet paper and hot and cold running water
- Separate hand washing basin provided for food handlers
- Re-Inspection & Complaint
4 infractions
- Separate hand washing basin provided for food handlers
- * Fail to use basin only for hand washing of employees
- Operator to ensure a designated hand washing basin is provided and/or accessible in each food preparation area
- Operator to ensure designated hand washing basin is only used for hand washing
- Minimum of 1 Certified Food Handler per hour of operation?
- * Fail to provide a minimum of 1 certified food handler per hour of operation
- Operator to ensure a minimum of 1 certified food handler is present during every hour of operation
- Operator to provide proof of a certified food handler certificate
- Equipment, non-food contact surfaces and linen are maintained, designed, constructed, installed and accessible for cleaning
- * Fail to maintain all equipment/non-food contact surfaces are in clean and in good repair
- Operator to ensure that all equipment/non-food contact surfaces are maintained clean and in good repair
- Floors clean and in good repair
- * Fail to ensure floor of food-handling room kept clean and in good repair
- Operator to ensure floors are kept clean and in good repair
- Separate hand washing basin provided for food handlers
- Re-Inspection
1 infraction
- Minimum of 1 Certified Food Handler per hour of operation?
- * Fail to provide a minimum of 1 certified food handler per hour of operation
- Operator to ensure a minimum of 1 certified food handler is present during every hour of operation
- Operator to provide proof of a certified food handler certificate
- Minimum of 1 Certified Food Handler per hour of operation?
- Re-Inspection
2 infractions
- Minimum of 1 Certified Food Handler per hour of operation?
- * Fail to provide a minimum of 1 certified food handler per hour of operation
- Operator to ensure a minimum of 1 certified food handler is present during every hour of operation
- Operator to provide proof of a certified food handler certificate
- Mechanical dishwashing: Wash / rinse water clean, water temperature, timing cycles, sanitizer
- * Fail to provide mechanical dishwasher in good repair
- Hot water sanitizer must be at 82°C or greater for at least 10 seconds
- Chlorine sanitizer concentration must be at least 100 parts per million at 24°C or greater for at least 45 seconds
- Operator to ensure utensils are manually sanitized after each mechanical wash cycle
- Operator to ensure mechanical dishwasher is maintained in good repair
- Minimum of 1 Certified Food Handler per hour of operation?
- Routine
8 infractions
- Separate hand washing basin provided for food handlers
- * Fail to ensure hand washing basin is easily accessible
- Operator to ensure a designated hand washing basin is provided and/or accessible in each food preparation area
- Operator to ensure designated hand washing basin is only used for hand washing
- Hand washing basin with supplies of hot and cold water, soap in a dispenser and single-use towels
- * Fail to provide adequate supplies (single-use towels, soap in a dispenser) for the hand washing basin in the food preparation area
- Operator to ensure hand washing basins are adequately supplied
- Minimum of 1 Certified Food Handler per hour of operation?
- * Fail to provide a minimum of 1 certified food handler per hour of operation
- Operator to ensure a minimum of 1 certified food handler is present during every hour of operation
- Operator to provide proof of a certified food handler certificate
- Food protected from potential contamination and/or adulteration
- * Observed potentially hazardous food not covered to prevent contamination / adulteration
- * Observed raw foods stored above cooked / ready-to-eat foods
- Operator to ensure cooked and ready-to-eat foods are separated and above raw foods when handled or stored
- Operator to ensure all foods are covered in storage
- Food contact surfaces properly designed, constructed, installed, maintained, located (smooth, non-absorbent, cleanable, corrosion resistant and non-toxic)
- * Fail to maintain utensils, multi-service articles and/or food contact surfaces in a clean and sanitary manner and/or in good repair
- Operator to ensure all food contact surfaces, utensils and/or multi-service articles are cleaned and sanitized after each use and are maintained in good repair
- Mechanical dishwashing: Wash / rinse water clean, water temperature, timing cycles, sanitizer
- * Fail to provide mechanical dishwasher in good repair
- Hot water sanitizer must be at 82°C or greater for at least 10 seconds
- Chlorine sanitizer concentration must be at least 100 parts per million at 24°C or greater for at least 45 seconds
- Operator to ensure utensils are manually sanitized after each mechanical wash cycle
- Operator to ensure the appropriate chemicals and/or temperatures are used for proper washing and sanitizing
- Food contact surfaces washed / rinsed / sanitized after each use and following any operations when contamination may have occurred
- * Fail to ensure sanitizing solution contains the appropriate type of chemical solution and/or concentration/strength of sanitizer
- Operator to ensure sanitizing solution contain the appropriate type of chemical solution and/or concentration/strength for sanitizing
- Floors clean and in good repair
- * Fail to ensure floor of dishwashing area kept clean and in good repair
- Operator to ensure floors are kept clean and in good repair
- Separate hand washing basin provided for food handlers
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