• resultFail
• critical violations5
• last inspectedJuly 25, 2008 →
• address126 State St, Boston 02109

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Is Vertigo clean?

Vertigo is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 25, 2008. Inspectors wrote up 5 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at Vertigo?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 25, 2008, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Container Labels
• ⚠️Good Hygienic Practicescritical
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Test Kit Provided
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Cleancritical
• ⚠️Food Contact Surfaces Clean
• ⚠️Installed and Maintained
• ⚠️Location Accessiblecritical
• ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
• ⚠️Fixture's not properly shielded
• ⚠️Toxic Items: Original Containercritical
• ⚠️Premises Maintained
• ⚠️PIC Performing Dutiescritical

Vertigo inspection and administrative history

Vertigo has 6 inspections on record going back to July 25, 2008.

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

Vertigo vs North End

North End runs 92% clean across 706 tracked restaurants — 597 clean, 25 mid, 24 cooked.

Against the 706 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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.

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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 July 25, 2008. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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