• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedNovember 26, 2018 →
• address168 Canal St, Boston 02114

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Is Sullivan's Tap clean?

Sullivan's Tap is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 26, 2018. 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 Sullivan's Tap?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 26, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Location Accessiblecritical
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals

Sullivan's Tap inspection and administrative history

Sullivan's Tap has 31 inspections on record going back to October 8, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

Sullivan's Tap vs West End

West End runs 90% clean across 238 tracked restaurants — 210 clean, 13 mid, 10 cooked.

Against the 238 spots Cooked tracks in West End, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.

Other spots in West End

• ✓ Burger King
  cooked · August 10, 2007
• ✓ Half Time
  clean · November 14, 2019
• ✓ Sullivan's Restaurant
  clean · September 28, 2016
• ✓ Mass General Hospital Cafe
  clean · June 2, 2026
• ✓ Community Workshop Inc.
  clean · September 3, 2026
• ✓ Sorelle
  clean · April 5, 2016

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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 November 26, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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