Cooked?Eddie Merlot's
- resultFail
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 24, 2022 →
- address505 Congress St, Boston 02210
Is Eddie Merlot's clean?
Eddie Merlot's is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 24, 2022. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Eddie Merlot's?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 24, 2022, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️When a HACCP Plan is Required (C)
- ⚠️Cleaning Procedure (P)critical
- ⚠️Eating Drinking or Using Tobacco (C)
- ⚠️Effectiveness-Hair Restraints (C)
- ⚠️(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf)
- ⚠️Thawing (C)
- ⚠️Temperature Measuring Devices Manual and Mechanical Warewashing (Pf)
- ⚠️Heating Ventilation Air Conditioning System Vents (C)
- ⚠️Handwashing Cleanser Availability (Pf)
- ⚠️Hand Drying Provision (Pf)
- ⚠️Anti-Choking
Eddie Merlot's inspection and administrative history
Eddie Merlot's has 7 inspections on record going back to February 12, 2021.
January 18, 2023 Inspection not required
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →October 31, 2022 Administrative record filed
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View full inspection →October 24, 2022 Fail
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View full inspection →June 13, 2022 Inspection not required
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View full inspection →November 5, 2021 Administrative record filed
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View full inspection →June 25, 2021 Pass
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View full inspection →February 12, 2021 Pass
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View full inspection →Eddie Merlot's 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 1% 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 October 24, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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