• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedNovember 30, 2018 →
• address220 Tremont St, Boston 02116

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Is The Tam clean?

The Tam is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 30, 2018. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at The Tam?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 3 code checks as passed on November 30, 2018.

The Tam inspection and administrative history

The Tam has 24 inspections on record going back to June 24, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

The Tam vs Chinatown

Chinatown runs 86% clean across 297 tracked restaurants — 245 clean, 22 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 297 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 14% of them.

Other spots in Chinatown

• ✓ Mike Kiley's Tavern
  clean · June 10, 2009
• ✓ New England Med Ctr.-Kitchen
  cooked · February 10, 2009
• ✓ Mcdonald's
  clean · February 12, 2015
• ✓ East Ocean City
  clean · October 31, 2016
• ✓ Dunkin Donuts
  clean · April 22, 2026
• ✓ Hong Kong Eatery
  clean · December 23, 2014

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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 30, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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