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Center Stage @ Emerson
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 21, 2026
- address116 Boylston St, Boston 02116
Is Center Stage @ Emerson clean?
Center Stage @ Emerson is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 21, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Center Stage @ Emerson?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 21, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (P) • No hot water in the bathrooms. Plumber is on site working on the issue. Kitchen and hand sinks 100F. PIC spoke with the staff and they are aware of the issue and if they use the bathroom they are to wash their hands at the hand sink in the kitchen.criticalSystem Maintained in Good Repair (P) • No hot water in the bathrooms. Plumber is on site working on the issue. Kitchen and hand sinks 100F. PIC spoke with the staff and they are aware of the issue and if they use the bathroom they are to wash their hands at the hand sink in the kitchen.
- ⚠️Provide proper allergen awareness verbiage on all menu's and menu boards.Provide proper allergen awareness verbiage on all menu's and menu boards.
When was Center Stage @ Emerson last inspected?
Center Stage @ Emerson has 22 inspections on record going back to September 11, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 21, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 15, 2026 | Fail | |
| October 21, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 14, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 7, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 17, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 13, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 5, 2024 | Fail | |
| September 4, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| February 2, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — |
Center Stage @ Emerson vs Bay Village
Bay Village runs 88% clean across 350 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 16 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 350 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 January 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.