Cooked?
Dovetail
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 13, 2026
- address1 First Av, Charlestown 02129
Is Dovetail clean?
Dovetail is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 13, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Dovetail?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on March 13, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Dovetail last inspected?
Dovetail has 14 inspections on record going back to December 1, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 13, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 13, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 6, 2026 | Fail | |
| October 15, 2025 | Pass | |
| June 26, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 9, 2024 | Pass | |
| May 1, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| October 12, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 22, 2022 | Pass | |
| August 10, 2021 | Pass | |
| August 4, 2021 | Fail |
Dovetail vs Charlestown
Charlestown runs 92% clean across 198 tracked restaurants — 178 clean, 7 mid, 8 cooked.
Against the 198 spots Cooked tracks in Charlestown, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 March 13, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.