Cooked?
The Tam
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJune 10, 2026
- address222 Tremont St, Boston 02116
Is The Tam clean?
The Tam is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 10, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Tam?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 10, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Provide a choke safe employee on siteProvide a choke safe employee on site
When was The Tam last inspected?
The Tam has 32 inspections on record going back to December 28, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 10, 2026 | Pass | |
| June 5, 2026 | Fail | |
| May 27, 2026 | Fail | |
| December 17, 2025 | Pass | |
| December 16, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 15, 2025 | — | |
| October 20, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 9, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 2, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 2, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 21, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 12, 2025 | Fail |
The Tam vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 85% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 252 clean, 22 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% of them.
Other spots in Chinatown
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 June 10, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.