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Little Whale Oyster Bar
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 18, 2023
- address314 Newbury St, Boston 02115
Is Little Whale Oyster Bar clean?
Little Whale Oyster Bar is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 18, 2023. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Little Whale Oyster Bar?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 18, 2023. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Little Whale Oyster Bar last inspected?
Little Whale Oyster Bar has 15 inspections on record going back to January 24, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 20, 2026 | — | |
| July 31, 2025 | — | |
| January 28, 2025 | — | |
| July 31, 2024 | — | |
| January 24, 2024 | — | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| April 18, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| November 10, 2022 | Pass | |
| November 2, 2022 | Fail | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| January 18, 2022 | — |
Little Whale Oyster Bar 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 April 18, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.