• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedFebruary 27, 2024 →
• address23 Tyler St, Boston 02111

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Is Royal Tea clean?

Royal Tea is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on February 27, 2024. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Royal Tea?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 3 code checks as passed on February 27, 2024.

Royal Tea inspection and administrative history

Royal Tea has 24 inspections on record going back to July 30, 2018. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Royal Tea vs Chinatown

Chinatown runs 86% clean across 298 tracked restaurants — 248 clean, 22 mid, 17 cooked.

Against the 298 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 13% 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 February 27, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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