• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 15, 2019 →
• address500 Commonwealth Av, Boston 02215

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Is Island Creek Oyster Bar clean?

Island Creek Oyster Bar is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 15, 2019. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Island Creek Oyster Bar?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 7 code checks as passed on May 15, 2019.

Island Creek Oyster Bar inspection and administrative history

Island Creek Oyster Bar has 22 inspections on record going back to October 8, 2010. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Island Creek Oyster Bar vs Fenway

Fenway runs 90% clean across 424 tracked restaurants — 374 clean, 21 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 424 spots Cooked tracks in Fenway, 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.

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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 May 15, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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