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Scorpion Bar/ Grand Seaport Square
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 30, 2025
- address23 Northern Av, Boston 02210
Is Scorpion Bar/ Grand Seaport Square clean?
Scorpion Bar/ Grand Seaport Square is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 30, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Scorpion Bar/ Grand Seaport Square?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 30, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Miscellaneous Sources of Contamination (C) • Provide a partition between the hand sink and the dump sink at the bar.Miscellaneous Sources of Contamination (C) • Provide a partition between the hand sink and the dump sink at the bar.
- ⚠️Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf) • Provide sanitizer stris for the 3 bay sink sanitizer in the kitchen.Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf) • Provide sanitizer stris for the 3 bay sink sanitizer in the kitchen.
- ⚠️Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C) • Repair the sanitizer dispenser on the 3 bay sink.Good Repair and Proper Adjustment-Equipment (C) • Repair the sanitizer dispenser on the 3 bay sink.
- ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Noted both ice machines has black spots on the inside.Clean(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf) • Noted both ice machines has black spots on the inside.Clean
When was Scorpion Bar/ Grand Seaport Square last inspected?
Scorpion Bar/ Grand Seaport Square has 15 inspections on record going back to October 25, 2017. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 30, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 23, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 24, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| December 14, 2023 | — | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| October 20, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| September 30, 2021 | — | |
| November 7, 2020 | — | |
| December 11, 2019 | Pass | |
| December 4, 2019 | Fail |
Scorpion Bar/ Grand Seaport Square vs Downtown
Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 October 30, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.