Emack & Bolio's

• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJune 29, 2026 →
• address1 Chelsea St, Charlestown 02129

Is Emack & Bolio's clean?

Emack & Bolio's is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 29, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Emack & Bolio's?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 29, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Effectiveness-Hair Restraints (C)
• ⚠️Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events (Pf)
• ⚠️(A) (B) and (C)(1) (4)-(16) Demonstration (Pf)
• ⚠️Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C)
• ⚠️Wiping Cloths Use Limitation (C)
• ⚠️Temperature Measuring Devices-Functionality (Pf)
• ⚠️Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf)
• ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf)
• ⚠️Using a Handwashing Sink-Operation and Maintenance (Pf)
• ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)

Emack & Bolio's inspection and administrative history

Emack & Bolio's has 48 inspections on record going back to March 30, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Emack & Bolio's vs West End

West End runs 88% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 206 clean, 15 mid, 12 cooked.

Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in West End, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 June 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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