• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 19, 2026 →
• address108 Cambridge St, Charlestown 02129

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Is The Tavern At The End Of The World clean?

The Tavern At The End Of The World is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 19, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at The Tavern At The End Of The World?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C)
• ⚠️(A)-(P) Person-In-Charge-Duties (Pf)
• ⚠️Food Storage Containers Identified with Common Name of Food (C)
• ⚠️In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C)
• ⚠️Miscellaneous Sources of Contamination (C)
• ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf)
• ⚠️Temperature Measuring Devices-Functionality (C)
• ⚠️Food Temperature Measuring Devices (Pf)
• ⚠️Cutting Surfaces (C)
• ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf)
• ⚠️Handwashing Sinks-Numbers and Capacities (Pf)
• ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C)
• ⚠️Backflow Prevention (P)critical
• ⚠️Outer Openings Protected (C)
• ⚠️Hand Drying Provision (Pf)
• ⚠️Handwashing Aids and Devices Use Restrictions (C)
• ⚠️Handwashing Signage (C)
• ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)

The Tavern At The End Of The World inspection and administrative history

The Tavern At The End Of The World has 29 inspections on record going back to September 11, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

The Tavern At The End Of The World vs Charlestown

Charlestown runs 95% clean across 194 tracked restaurants — 179 clean, 5 mid, 5 cooked.

Against the 194 spots Cooked tracks in Charlestown, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.

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  clean · July 15, 2026
• ✓ Ali Baba
  clean · August 10, 2026
• ✕ The Anchor
  mid · August 28, 2026
• ✓ Charlestown Cafe
  clean · September 4, 2020
• ✓ Tradesman Charlestown
  clean · July 6, 2026

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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 October 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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