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Rock Bottom Brewery
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 18, 2026
- address115 Stuart St, Boston 02116
Is Rock Bottom Brewery clean?
Rock Bottom Brewery is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 18, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Rock Bottom Brewery?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 18, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Manual and Mechanical Warewashing Equipment Chemical Sanitization-Temperature pH Concentration and Hardness (P) • At the bar's chemical warewashing machine tested at 0PPM chlorine three times; repair or replace chemical warewashing machine so that it dispenses sanitizer at correct PPM. A service call was placed while the inspection was active to repair the chemical warewashing machine and the staff were instructed by the PIC to use the three compartment sink until the chemical warewashing machine is fixed. After multiple runs and swapping the sanitizer bottles and after the service all was placed the chemical warewashing machine tested at 50ppm.criticalManual and Mechanical Warewashing Equipment Chemical Sanitization-Temperature pH Concentration and Hardness (P) • At the bar's chemical warewashing machine tested at 0PPM chlorine three times; repair or replace chemical warewashing machine so that it dispenses sanitizer at correct PPM. A service call was placed while the inspection was active to repair the chemical warewashing machine and the staff were instructed by the PIC to use the three compartment sink until the chemical warewashing machine is fixed. After multiple runs and swapping the sanitizer bottles and after the service all was placed the chemical warewashing machine tested at 50ppm.
- ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • At the water heater in the back of house there is a leak causing water to come out and go into the nearby drain; the person in charge states the water heater began leaking on 1-28-2026 and a replacement unit is scheduled to be installed on 1-29-2026.System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • At the water heater in the back of house there is a leak causing water to come out and go into the nearby drain; the person in charge states the water heater began leaking on 1-28-2026 and a replacement unit is scheduled to be installed on 1-29-2026.
- ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • In the office there are floor tiles missing or damaged exposing the unfinished wood floor beneath; repair or replace the floor tiles in the office.Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • In the office there are floor tiles missing or damaged exposing the unfinished wood floor beneath; repair or replace the floor tiles in the office.
When was Rock Bottom Brewery last inspected?
Rock Bottom Brewery has 20 inspections on record going back to December 28, 2021. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 18, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 29, 2026 | Fail | |
| July 24, 2025 | Pass | |
| July 18, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 7, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 25, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 15, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 23, 2024 | Pass | |
| September 8, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 30, 2023 | Fail | |
| March 24, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 10, 2023 | Fail |
Rock Bottom Brewery vs Bay Village
Bay Village runs 88% clean across 350 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 16 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 350 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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.
Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated February 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.