City Tap House

• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 31, 2026 →
• address374 Congress St, Boston 02210

Is City Tap House clean?

City Tap House is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 31, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at City Tap House?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 31, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Controlling Pests (C)

When was City Tap House last inspected?

City Tap House has 38 inspections on record going back to December 23, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.

City Tap House vs South Boston Waterfront

South Boston Waterfront runs 93% clean across 389 tracked restaurants — 333 clean, 17 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 389 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston Waterfront, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated August 31, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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