• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedDecember 8, 2022 →
• address289 Dorchester St, South Boston 02127

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Is Telegraph Hill Tavern clean?

Telegraph Hill Tavern is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on December 8, 2022. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Telegraph Hill Tavern?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 1 code check as passed on December 8, 2022.

Telegraph Hill Tavern inspection and administrative history

Telegraph Hill Tavern has 36 inspections on record going back to September 23, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

History worth a look: 2 of these 6 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Telegraph Hill Tavern vs South Boston

South Boston runs 90% clean across 188 tracked restaurants — 158 clean, 11 mid, 7 cooked.

Against the 188 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston, 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.

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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 December 8, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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