• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMarch 29, 2012 →
• address4 Liberty Sq, Boston 02109

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Is The Vault clean?

The Vault is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 29, 2012. 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 Vault?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 29, 2012, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Hot Holdingcritical
• ⚠️Food Protection
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings

The Vault inspection and administrative history

The Vault has 15 inspections on record going back to October 20, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.

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

History worth a look: 4 of these 8 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

The Vault vs Downtown

Downtown runs 92% clean across 997 tracked restaurants — 863 clean, 47 mid, 32 cooked.

Against the 997 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 1% of them.

Other spots in Downtown

• ✕ Viga/Pavia
  cooked · October 19, 2026
• ? High Street Grille
  not rated · December 30, 2012
• ? April Kwon Newsstand
  not rated · December 30, 2012
• ✓ Subway
  clean · April 7, 2009
• ✓ Parkside Cafe 2
  clean · October 19, 2018
• ✓ Children's Museum Gift Shop
  clean · March 26, 2018

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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.

Read the Boston ratings guide →

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 March 29, 2012. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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