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Island Creek Oysters
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 29, 2019
- address299 Newbury St, Boston 02115
Is Island Creek Oysters clean?
Island Creek Oysters is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 29, 2019. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Island Creek Oysters?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 29, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Service Sink (C) • No service sink - Install or request a variance Mop water to be dumped into toilet has been approvedService Sink (C) • No service sink - Install or request a variance Mop water to be dumped into toilet has been approved
When was Island Creek Oysters last inspected?
Island Creek Oysters has 3 inspections on record going back to November 29, 2019.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 30, 2020 | closed by the city | |
| November 29, 2019 | Pass | |
| November 29, 2019 | Fail |
Island Creek Oysters vs Back Bay
Back Bay runs 81% clean across 519 tracked restaurants — 417 clean, 46 mid, 50 cooked.
Against the 519 spots Cooked tracks in Back Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.