Ironside Grille

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 25, 2019 →
• address23 Park St, Charlestown 02129

Is Ironside Grille clean?

Ironside Grille is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 25, 2019. 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 Ironside Grille?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 25, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Utensil Storage
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design
• ⚠️Dishwashng Facilities
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Cleancritical
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Outside Storage Improperly Maintained
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors

Ironside Grille inspection and administrative history

Ironside Grille has 38 inspections on record going back to July 6, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Ironside Grille 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 3% 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 January 25, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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