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The Backstage Cafe @Emerson
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 21, 2026
- address2 Boylston Pl, Boston 02116
Is The Backstage Cafe @Emerson clean?
The Backstage Cafe @Emerson is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 21, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Backstage Cafe @Emerson?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on January 21, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was The Backstage Cafe @Emerson last inspected?
The Backstage Cafe @Emerson has 20 inspections on record going back to June 22, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 21, 2026 | Pass | |
| October 7, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 17, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 13, 2024 | — | |
| November 5, 2024 | Fail | |
| September 11, 2024 | Pass | |
| September 4, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| February 13, 2023 | Pass | |
| February 2, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| November 15, 2022 | Pass |
The Backstage Cafe @Emerson vs Bay Village
Bay Village runs 88% clean across 350 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 16 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 350 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 January 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.