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Rite: Tea & Espresso Bar
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 2, 2025
- address525 Western Av, Brighton 02135
Is Rite: Tea & Espresso Bar clean?
Rite: Tea & Espresso Bar is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 2, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Rite: Tea & Espresso Bar?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 2, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Rite: Tea & Espresso Bar last inspected?
Rite: Tea & Espresso Bar has 6 inspections on record going back to August 15, 2023.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 2, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 13, 2025 | Pass | |
| September 26, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 8, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| August 15, 2023 | Pass |
Rite: Tea & Espresso Bar vs Brighton
Brighton runs 83% clean across 486 tracked restaurants — 393 clean, 43 mid, 35 cooked.
Against the 486 spots Cooked tracks in Brighton, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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 October 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.