Fairmont Copley Plaza

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 28, 2026 →
• address138 Saint James Av, Boston 02116

Is Fairmont Copley Plaza clean?

Fairmont Copley Plaza is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 28, 2026. 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 Fairmont Copley Plaza?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 28, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C)
• ⚠️Backflow Prevention (P)critical
• ⚠️Surface Characteristics-Indoor Areas (C)
• ⚠️Outer Openings Protected (C)
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (C)

Fairmont Copley Plaza inspection and administrative history

Fairmont Copley Plaza has 31 inspections on record going back to January 29, 2019. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 5 of these 10 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

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Fairmont Copley Plaza vs Bay Village

Bay Village runs 88% clean across 345 tracked restaurants — 285 clean, 14 mid, 26 cooked.

Against the 345 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 6% of them.

Other spots in Bay Village

• ✕ Afc Sushi @ Emerson College
  cooked · March 5, 2019
• ✓ Wayfair (Jugos Popup)
  clean · May 2, 2019
• ✓ Fire & Ice
  clean · August 20, 2026
• ✓ Moody's Delicatessen & Provisions
  clean · December 23, 2019
• ✓ Basile- Fine Italian Kitchen
  clean · October 21, 2025
• ✓ Cosmica @ The Revolution Hotel
  clean · September 15, 2026

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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 September 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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