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Big Night Live
- resultFail
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 31, 2025
- address50 Causeway St, Boston 02114
Is Big Night Live clean?
Big Night Live is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on December 31, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Big Night Live?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 31, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • Damaged ceiling tiles above bar to the right of stage. Repair as necessary. 12.1.25: Area of fire has been walled off and sheet rocked. Cover exposed sheet rock with an easily cleanable surface. 12-31-25: Walls sealed and paintedRepairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • Damaged ceiling tiles above bar to the right of stage. Repair as necessary. 12.1.25: Area of fire has been walled off and sheet rocked. Cover exposed sheet rock with an easily cleanable surface. 12-31-25: Walls sealed and painted
When was Big Night Live last inspected?
Big Night Live has 15 inspections on record going back to October 29, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 1, 2025 | Fail | |
| November 30, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| February 20, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 2, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| November 14, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| November 1, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 13, 2021 | Pass | |
| October 13, 2021 | Pass | |
| November 6, 2020 | — |
Big Night Live vs West End
West End runs 90% clean across 247 tracked restaurants — 217 clean, 13 mid, 12 cooked.
Against the 247 spots Cooked tracks in West End, this one comes out cleaner than 8% of them.
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How Boston grades restaurants
Boston reports inspections as a pass or a fail, with no score and no letter. What separates a bad fail from a trivial one is the violation severity ladder: a single star is a minor issue, two stars is more serious, and three stars marks a critical foodborne-illness risk factor — temperature abuse, bad handwashing, cross-contamination. A restaurant can fail on paperwork alone, which is not the same as failing on food safety. Cooked splits Boston fails accordingly: a fail with a three-star violation reads cooked, a fail on minor items only reads mid.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated December 31, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.