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Tony C's Sports Bar & Grill
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 11, 2025
- address250 Northern Av, Boston 02210
Is Tony C's Sports Bar & Grill clean?
Tony C's Sports Bar & Grill is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 11, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Tony C's Sports Bar & Grill?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 11, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Ice Used as Exterior Coolant Prohibited as Ingredient (P) • Ice used for mix drinks at the bar stored bottles in contact with the ice. Discontinue and retrain staff COS by the PICcriticalIce Used as Exterior Coolant Prohibited as Ingredient (P) • Ice used for mix drinks at the bar stored bottles in contact with the ice. Discontinue and retrain staff COS by the PIC
- ⚠️In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • Noted food dispensing bulk flour container scoop in contact with the food.Discontinue and store scoop in clean sanitized container or in the product itself with the handle facing up and not in contact with foodIn-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • Noted food dispensing bulk flour container scoop in contact with the food.Discontinue and store scoop in clean sanitized container or in the product itself with the handle facing up and not in contact with food
- ⚠️Manual and Mechanical Warewashing Equipment Chemical Sanitization-Temperature pH Concentration and Hardness (P) • Low temp dish machine in the kitchen recorded 0PPm with the test strip. Repair NOTE: Discontinue using the dish machine and use 3 bay sink to wash/rinse and sanitizecriticalManual and Mechanical Warewashing Equipment Chemical Sanitization-Temperature pH Concentration and Hardness (P) • Low temp dish machine in the kitchen recorded 0PPm with the test strip. Repair NOTE: Discontinue using the dish machine and use 3 bay sink to wash/rinse and sanitize
- ⚠️Hand Drying Provision (Pf) • No papaer towel at the hand sink at the bar.Provide COS by the PICHand Drying Provision (Pf) • No papaer towel at the hand sink at the bar.Provide COS by the PIC
- ⚠️Handwashing Signage (C) • Provide hand washing sign on the hand sink at the bar.Handwashing Signage (C) • Provide hand washing sign on the hand sink at the bar.
When was Tony C's Sports Bar & Grill last inspected?
Tony C's Sports Bar & Grill has 43 inspections on record going back to March 2, 2011. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 11, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 4, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 15, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 10, 2025 | Fail | |
| December 11, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 26, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 17, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 10, 2024 | Fail | |
| December 4, 2023 | — | |
| May 11, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 4, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — |
Tony C's Sports Bar & Grill vs South Boston Waterfront
South Boston Waterfront runs 93% clean across 391 tracked restaurants — 333 clean, 15 mid, 12 cooked.
Against the 391 spots Cooked tracks in South Boston Waterfront, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 September 11, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.