Dining Hall @Emerson

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJanuary 21, 2026
• address122 Boylston St, Boston 02116

Is Dining Hall @Emerson clean?

Dining Hall @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 Dining Hall @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 (C) • High temp dishmachine is shut down and a work order was put in for the dishmachine. At this time they are using the 3 bay sink to wash rinse and sanitize. All plates and utensils are disposable.
  System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • High temp dishmachine is shut down and a work order was put in for the dishmachine. At this time they are using the 3 bay sink to wash rinse and sanitize. All plates and utensils are disposable.
• ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (P) • At the time of the re inspection the bathroom hand sinks did not have hot water. Temperature 59F. The kitchen and all other hand sinks were 100F. Plumber was on site and working on the issue. PIC spoke with all the staff and informed them that after using the restroom they are to wash their hands in the bathroom then they are to wash again at the hand sink in the kitchen until the hot water issue has been resolved.critical
  System Maintained in Good Repair (P) • At the time of the re inspection the bathroom hand sinks did not have hot water. Temperature 59F. The kitchen and all other hand sinks were 100F. Plumber was on site and working on the issue. PIC spoke with all the staff and informed them that after using the restroom they are to wash their hands in the bathroom then they are to wash again at the hand sink in the kitchen until the hot water issue has been resolved.
• ⚠️Please post the proper allergen awareness on all menu's and menu boards. Allergen verbiage was emailed to PIC.
  Please post the proper allergen awareness on all menu's and menu boards. Allergen verbiage was emailed to PIC.

When was Dining Hall @Emerson last inspected?

Dining Hall @Emerson has 35 inspections on record going back to June 22, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Dining Hall @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.