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Citizen Public House & Oyster Bar
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 15, 2025
- address1310 Boylston St, Boston 02215
Is Citizen Public House & Oyster Bar clean?
Citizen Public House & Oyster Bar is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 15, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Citizen Public House & Oyster Bar?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 15, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️(A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C) • The posted certified food managers certificate has expired there is no posted Allergen awareness certificate Provide current certificates from a full time employee(A) Certified Food Protection Manager (C) • The posted certified food managers certificate has expired there is no posted Allergen awareness certificate Provide current certificates from a full time employee
- ⚠️Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf) • Quats test kit observed expired.Provide new test kit (test done using the inspectors test kit)Sanitizing Solutions Testing Devices (Pf) • Quats test kit observed expired.Provide new test kit (test done using the inspectors test kit)
- ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Clean the interior of the keg cooler to remove soils.Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Clean the interior of the keg cooler to remove soils.
- ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Clean the interior walkin units walls and the compressor fans to remove dust & mold like soils.Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Clean the interior walkin units walls and the compressor fans to remove dust & mold like soils.
- ⚠️Provide a current choke safe certificate on site from a full time employee.Provide a current choke safe certificate on site from a full time employee.
When was Citizen Public House & Oyster Bar last inspected?
Citizen Public House & Oyster Bar has 38 inspections on record going back to October 20, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 15, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 8, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 15, 2024 | Pass | |
| August 13, 2024 | Fail | |
| July 23, 2024 | Pass | |
| July 16, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| November 29, 2023 | — | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| November 2, 2022 | — | |
| October 20, 2022 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2022 | — |
Citizen Public House & Oyster Bar vs Fenway
Fenway runs 89% clean across 433 tracked restaurants — 379 clean, 23 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 433 spots Cooked tracks in Fenway, this one comes out cleaner than 12% of them.
Other spots in Fenway
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 October 15, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.