• resultFail
• critical violations3
• last inspectedJanuary 29, 2019 →
• address138 St James Av, Boston 02116

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Is Copley Plaza Hotel clean?

Copley Plaza Hotel is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 29, 2019. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Copley Plaza Hotel?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 29, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Cold Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Inadequate Facilities/Cooling Methods
• ⚠️Separation Segregation Cross Contaminationcritical
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded
• ⚠️Inadequate Lighting
• ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical

Copley Plaza Hotel inspection and administrative history

Copley Plaza Hotel has 58 inspections on record going back to June 29, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Copley Plaza Hotel vs Bay Village

Bay Village runs 87% clean across 342 tracked restaurants — 279 clean, 18 mid, 25 cooked.

Against the 342 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.

Other spots in Bay Village

• ✓ Chandler Inn
  clean · April 22, 2014
• ✓ Berkeley Residence Ywca
  clean · August 14, 2015
• ✓ Park Sq Cafe
  clean · June 17, 2022
• ✕ Skip Jack's Seafood Emporium
  cooked · July 11, 2014
• ✓ Ming's Supermarket Inc
  clean · May 1, 2009
• ✓ Au Bon Pain
  clean · February 1, 2018

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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 January 29, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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