• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJuly 27, 2017 →
• address8 Hemenway St, Boston 02215

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Is Rice Bowl clean?

Rice Bowl is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 27, 2017. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Rice Bowl?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 5 code checks as passed on July 27, 2017.

Rice Bowl inspection and administrative history

Rice Bowl has 39 inspections on record going back to March 26, 2009. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Rice Bowl 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 18% 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 July 27, 2017. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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