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Tender Food
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedDecember 6, 2024
- address32 Cambridge St, Charlestown 02129
Is Tender Food clean?
Tender Food is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on December 6, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Tender Food?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on December 6, 2024. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Tender Food last inspected?
Tender Food has 5 inspections on record going back to November 30, 2022.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 6, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 15, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| November 1, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 30, 2022 | Pass |
Tender Food vs Charlestown
Charlestown runs 92% clean across 198 tracked restaurants — 178 clean, 7 mid, 8 cooked.
Against the 198 spots Cooked tracks in Charlestown, this one comes out cleaner than 7% 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 December 6, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.