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Emerson's
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 20, 2013
- address80 Boylston St, Boston 02116
Is Emerson's clean?
Emerson's is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 20, 2013. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Emerson's?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 20, 2013, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design • Properly clean and resurface all stained and scarred cutting boards in sandwich prep area.Food Contact Surfaces Design • Properly clean and resurface all stained and scarred cutting boards in sandwich prep area.
- ⚠️Single Service Articles Stored Dispensed • Provide proper storage of all single service eating utensils. Store invertedly with handles up at all times.Single Service Articles Stored Dispensed • Provide proper storage of all single service eating utensils. Store invertedly with handles up at all times.
When was Emerson's last inspected?
Emerson's has 16 inspections on record going back to September 24, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 30, 2013 | — | |
| March 20, 2013 | Pass | |
| March 13, 2013 | Fail | |
| December 30, 2012 | — | |
| January 27, 2012 | — | |
| September 30, 2011 | — | |
| February 22, 2011 | — | |
| July 30, 2010 | — | |
| February 1, 2010 | — | |
| August 19, 2009 | Pass | |
| February 3, 2009 | — | |
| September 11, 2008 | Pass |
Emerson's vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 85% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 252 clean, 22 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% of them.
Other spots in Chinatown
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 20, 2013. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.