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Rock & Rye
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 14, 2025
- address57 Stuart St, Boston 02116
Is Rock & Rye clean?
Rock & Rye is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 14, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Rock & Rye?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 14, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • Drain pipe leaking under the 3 bay sink.RepairSystem Maintained in Good Repair (C) • Drain pipe leaking under the 3 bay sink.Repair
- ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • Noticed loose floor tiles at the bar.Repair. Repair the wall going downstairs from the bar to the dish area.Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C) • Noticed loose floor tiles at the bar.Repair. Repair the wall going downstairs from the bar to the dish area.
When was Rock & Rye last inspected?
Rock & Rye has 6 inspections on record going back to April 29, 2024.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 14, 2025 | Pass | |
| November 4, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 28, 2025 | Fail | |
| October 31, 2024 | — | |
| May 2, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 29, 2024 | Fail |
Rock & Rye vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 85% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 252 clean, 22 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% of them.
Other spots in Chinatown
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 14, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.