Renaissance Hotel (Employee Cafe)

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 30, 2026 →
• address606 Congress St, Boston 02210

Is Renaissance Hotel (Employee Cafe) clean?

Renaissance Hotel (Employee Cafe) is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 30, 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 Renaissance Hotel (Employee Cafe)?

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

• ⚠️Miscellaneous Sources of Contamination (C)
• ⚠️(A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P)critical

Renaissance Hotel (Employee Cafe) inspection and administrative history

Renaissance Hotel (Employee Cafe) has 29 inspections on record going back to December 20, 2013. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

History worth a look: 3 of these 11 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

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Renaissance Hotel (Employee Cafe) vs South Boston Waterfront

South Boston Waterfront runs 95% clean across 389 tracked restaurants — 339 clean, 13 mid, 6 cooked.

Against the 389 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston Waterfront, this one comes out cleaner than 2% of them.

Other spots in South Boston Waterfront

• ✓ Renaissance Hotel (Starbucks)
  clean · October 7, 2026
• ✓ Renaissance Hotel (Gift Shop)
  clean · February 19, 2019
• ✓ Cosi No. 214
  clean · November 5, 2019
• ✓ Boston Athletic Club
  clean · July 11, 2018
• ✓ Starbucks Coffee No. 22566
  clean · March 18, 2026
• ✓ Jimmy John's
  clean · January 15, 2020

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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 30, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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