Tapestry

• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedFebruary 19, 2019
• address69 Kilmarnock St, Boston 02215

Is Tapestry clean?

Tapestry is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 19, 2019. 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 Tapestry?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 19, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Clean Cloths Hair Restraint • provide proper hair restraints
  Clean Cloths Hair Restraint • provide proper hair restraints
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Design • replace worn white cutting boards
  Food Contact Surfaces Design • replace worn white cutting boards
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces • side bar/remove all bare wood shelving/or resurface walk in/resurface rusted shelving
  Non-Food Contact Surfaces • side bar/remove all bare wood shelving/or resurface walk in/resurface rusted shelving
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean • main kitchen/sanitizer tested at 0ppm/repair unit to operate at 50-100ppm/technician called by manager/all dishware will go through 3 bay sink.critical
  Food Contact Surfaces Clean • main kitchen/sanitizer tested at 0ppm/repair unit to operate at 50-100ppm/technician called by manager/all dishware will go through 3 bay sink.
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage • both bar handsinks/provide employee handwash signage and liquid pump soap and paper towels in dispenser rear mens restroom/provide employee must wash hands signage all kitchen handsinks and wait station handsink/provide employee must wash hands signage repair towel dispenser at wait station and lower kitchen
  Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage • both bar handsinks/provide employee handwash signage and liquid pump soap and paper towels in dispenser rear mens restroom/provide employee must wash hands signage all kitchen handsinks and wait station handsink/provide employee must wash hands signage repair towel dispenser at wait station and lower kitchen
• ⚠️Insects Rodents Animals • prep tables and rear wait station and lower dry storage room/remove evidence of rodent droppings from floor/provide detailed extermination report
  Insects Rodents Animals • prep tables and rear wait station and lower dry storage room/remove evidence of rodent droppings from floor/provide detailed extermination report
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors • rear bar/clean floor area under all equipment pizza oven/clean floor area under pizza oven and shelving walk in/resurface worn floor
  Improper Maintenance of Floors • rear bar/clean floor area under all equipment pizza oven/clean floor area under pizza oven and shelving walk in/resurface worn floor
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings • bar and kitchen b beer walk in/replace stained missing ceiling tiles beer walk in/clean ceiling of stains dishroom/clean walls
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings • bar and kitchen b beer walk in/replace stained missing ceiling tiles beer walk in/clean ceiling of stains dishroom/clean walls
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded • kitchen/provide proper light shields
  Fixture's not properly shielded • kitchen/provide proper light shields
• ⚠️Inadequate Lighting • kitchen/replace burnt out lights
  Inadequate Lighting • kitchen/replace burnt out lights

When was Tapestry last inspected?

Tapestry has 8 inspections on record going back to May 20, 2016.

Tapestry vs Longwood

Longwood runs 78% clean across 203 tracked restaurants — 153 clean, 19 mid, 23 cooked.

Against the 203 spots Cooked tracks in Longwood, this one comes out cleaner than 6% of them.

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• ✕ Museum Of Fine Arts Cafe
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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 19, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.