Cooked?
Congress Card & Tobacco
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 4, 2020
- address218 Congress, Boston 02109
Is Congress Card & Tobacco clean?
Congress Card & Tobacco is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 4, 2020. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Congress Card & Tobacco?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on February 4, 2020. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Congress Card & Tobacco last inspected?
Congress Card & Tobacco has 17 inspections on record going back to September 24, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| February 4, 2020 | Pass | |
| March 14, 2019 | Pass | |
| May 2, 2018 | Pass | |
| December 20, 2017 | Pass | |
| December 20, 2017 | Pass | |
| December 30, 2016 | Pass | |
| September 12, 2013 | Pass | |
| December 30, 2012 | — | |
| January 13, 2012 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2012 | Fail | |
| March 31, 2011 | Pass |
Congress Card & Tobacco vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 February 4, 2020. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.