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Tip Tap Room
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedFebruary 20, 2026
- address138 Cambridge St, Boston 02114
Is Tip Tap Room clean?
Tip Tap Room is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 20, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Tip Tap Room?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️(B) and (C) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (C) • Noted frylator/stove top/convention oven heavily soiled in the kitchen area. Clean Floors under the equipment heavily soiled with grease.Clean(B) and (C) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (C) • Noted frylator/stove top/convention oven heavily soiled in the kitchen area. Clean Floors under the equipment heavily soiled with grease.Clean
- ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • Light shields at the cookline broken.Repair to prevent food contamination Repair ceiling tile outside the refrigerator walkinRepairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • Light shields at the cookline broken.Repair to prevent food contamination Repair ceiling tile outside the refrigerator walkin
- ⚠️Cleaning Frequency and Restrictions (C) • Ceiling tiles/air Vents on the cookline has visible dust. CleanCleaning Frequency and Restrictions (C) • Ceiling tiles/air Vents on the cookline has visible dust. Clean
When was Tip Tap Room last inspected?
Tip Tap Room has 48 inspections on record going back to June 12, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 20, 2026 | Pass | |
| February 13, 2026 | — | |
| February 6, 2026 | Fail | |
| April 14, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| February 8, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 1, 2024 | Fail | |
| December 5, 2023 | Pass | |
| November 28, 2023 | Fail | |
| April 12, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 5, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — |
Tip Tap Room vs West End
West End runs 90% clean across 247 tracked restaurants — 217 clean, 13 mid, 12 cooked.
Against the 247 spots Cooked tracks in West End, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 February 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.