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Tom English Cottage
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 29, 2026
- address112 Emerson St, South Boston 02127
Is Tom English Cottage clean?
Tom English Cottage is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 29, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Tom English Cottage?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on May 29, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Tom English Cottage last inspected?
Tom English Cottage has 56 inspections on record going back to October 5, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2026 | Pass | |
| September 19, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 12, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 27, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 9, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 27, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 17, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 2, 2024 | Fail | |
| May 20, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| August 8, 2023 | Pass | |
| August 3, 2023 | Fail |
Tom English Cottage vs South Boston
South Boston runs 91% clean across 192 tracked restaurants — 163 clean, 9 mid, 8 cooked.
Against the 192 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 May 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.