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Silver Dove Afternoon Tea
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 18, 2026
- address18 Tremont St, Boston 02108
Is Silver Dove Afternoon Tea clean?
Silver Dove Afternoon Tea is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 18, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Silver Dove Afternoon Tea?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 18, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Effectiveness-Hair Restraints (C) • Observed Staff not wearing hair restraint while prepping food.ProvideEffectiveness-Hair Restraints (C) • Observed Staff not wearing hair restraint while prepping food.Provide
- ⚠️In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • Noted soup laddle stored in the stagnant water.Discontinue use clean surface/running waterIn-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • Noted soup laddle stored in the stagnant water.Discontinue use clean surface/running water
- ⚠️Using a Handwashing Sink-Operation and Maintenance (Pf) • Noted hand sink in the front area being used as a dump sink.Discontinue Observed hand sink by the 3 bay sink in the kitchen area blocked by linnen basket and a rack.Remove to provide easy accessibility to the hand sinkUsing a Handwashing Sink-Operation and Maintenance (Pf) • Noted hand sink in the front area being used as a dump sink.Discontinue Observed hand sink by the 3 bay sink in the kitchen area blocked by linnen basket and a rack.Remove to provide easy accessibility to the hand sink
When was Silver Dove Afternoon Tea last inspected?
Silver Dove Afternoon Tea has 8 inspections on record going back to February 7, 2023.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 18, 2026 | Pass | |
| March 6, 2026 | Fail | |
| November 7, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 29, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 14, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 20, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 17, 2023 | Pass | |
| February 7, 2023 | Pass |
Silver Dove Afternoon Tea 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 10% 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 March 18, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.