• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedSeptember 29, 2026 →
• address150 Boylston St, Boston 02116

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Is Prow/Max Cafe @Emerson clean?

Prow/Max Cafe @Emerson is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 29, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Prow/Max Cafe @Emerson?

Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on September 29, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.

Prow/Max Cafe @Emerson inspection and administrative history

Prow/Max Cafe @Emerson has 22 inspections on record going back to June 22, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

History worth a look: 2 of these 11 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Prow/Max Cafe @Emerson 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 12% of them.

Other spots in Bay Village

• ✓ The Backstage Cafe @Emerson
  clean · September 29, 2026
• ✕ Dining Hall @Emerson
  cooked · September 29, 2026
• ✓ Flik @ Kirkland & Ellis
  clean · March 3, 2026
• ✓ The Good News Stand
  clean · June 3, 2011
• ✓ Corporate Chefs @ Plaza Cafe (Tufts)
  clean · March 20, 2019
• ✓ Afc Sushi @Liberty Mutual Ins.
  clean · December 11, 2019

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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 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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