Mooncusser Fish House & Moon Bar

• resultFail
• critical violations4
• last inspectedJuly 30, 2026 →
• address129 Columbus Av, Boston 02116

Is Mooncusser Fish House & Moon Bar clean?

Mooncusser Fish House & Moon Bar is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 30, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at Mooncusser Fish House & Moon Bar?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 30, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Handwashing Cleanser Availability (Pf)
• ⚠️Packaged and Unpackaged Food-Separation Packaging and Segregation (P)critical
• ⚠️In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C)
• ⚠️(A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P)critical
• ⚠️(A)(1) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P)critical
• ⚠️Manual and Mechanical Warewashing Equipment Chemical Sanitization-Temperature pH Concentration and Hardness (P)critical
• ⚠️(B) and (C) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (C)
• ⚠️Using a Handwashing Sink-Operation and Maintenance (Pf)
• ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)
• ⚠️Effectiveness-Hair Restraints (C)
• ⚠️Clean-up of Vomiting and Diarrheal Events (Pf)
• ⚠️(A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C)

Mooncusser Fish House & Moon Bar inspection and administrative history

Mooncusser Fish House & Moon Bar has 25 inspections on record going back to July 18, 2017. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

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Mooncusser Fish House & Moon Bar 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 0% of them.

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• ✓ Tavern Club
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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 July 30, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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