Cooked?Fomu Ice Cream
- resultFail
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJune 7, 2018 →
- address227 Newbury St, Boston 02116
Is Fomu Ice Cream clean?
Fomu Ice Cream is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on June 7, 2018. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Fomu Ice Cream?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 7, 2018, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Single Service Articles Stored Dispensed
- ⚠️Toilet Enclosed Clean
- ⚠️Improper Maintenance of Floors
- 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleanedImproper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings
- ⚠️PIC Knowledgecritical
Fomu Ice Cream inspection and administrative history
Fomu Ice Cream has 3 inspections on record going back to June 7, 2018.
March 15, 2022 Inspection not required
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →June 8, 2018 Administrative record filed
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →June 7, 2018 Fail
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View full inspection →Fomu Ice Cream vs Back Bay
Back Bay runs 81% clean across 503 tracked restaurants — 405 clean, 51 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 503 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 June 7, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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