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Brighton Shell
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 30, 2026
- address332 Chestnut Hill Av, Brighton 02135
Is Brighton Shell clean?
Brighton Shell is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 30, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Brighton Shell?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on January 30, 2026. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Brighton Shell last inspected?
Brighton Shell has 24 inspections on record going back to September 25, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 30, 2026 | Pass | |
| August 6, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 23, 2024 | Pass | |
| May 19, 2023 | Pass | |
| March 27, 2023 | — | |
| October 17, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| January 21, 2022 | Pass | |
| July 15, 2021 | Pass | |
| July 2, 2020 | Pass | |
| February 8, 2019 | Pass | |
| February 1, 2018 | Pass |
Brighton Shell vs Brighton
Brighton runs 83% clean across 486 tracked restaurants — 393 clean, 43 mid, 35 cooked.
Against the 486 spots Cooked tracks in Brighton, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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 January 30, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.