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Shea's Tavern
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 26, 2026
- address222 W Broadway, South Boston 02127
Is Shea's Tavern clean?
Shea's Tavern is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 26, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Shea's Tavern?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on February 26, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Shea's Tavern last inspected?
Shea's Tavern has 34 inspections on record going back to September 10, 2009. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 26, 2026 | Pass | |
| August 21, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 28, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 27, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 23, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 7, 2023 | — | |
| March 6, 2023 | — | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| July 19, 2022 | Pass | |
| June 13, 2022 | — | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| December 23, 2021 | — |
Shea's Tavern vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 85% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 252 clean, 22 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 26, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.