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Charlestown Shell
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 29, 2011
- address1 Rutherford Av, Charlestown 02129
Is Charlestown Shell clean?
Charlestown Shell is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 29, 2011. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Charlestown Shell?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on November 29, 2011. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Charlestown Shell last inspected?
Charlestown Shell has 9 inspections on record going back to February 28, 2008.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 29, 2011 | Pass | |
| August 30, 2011 | Pass | |
| April 6, 2011 | Pass | |
| November 5, 2010 | Pass | |
| October 29, 2010 | Fail | |
| February 5, 2010 | Pass | |
| February 26, 2009 | Pass | |
| August 12, 2008 | Pass | |
| February 28, 2008 | Pass |
Charlestown Shell 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 November 29, 2011. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.