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Royce Chocolate
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 24, 2025
- address251 Newbury St, Boston 02116
Is Royce Chocolate clean?
Royce Chocolate is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 24, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Royce Chocolate?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on September 24, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was Royce Chocolate last inspected?
Royce Chocolate has 8 inspections on record going back to January 31, 2020.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 24, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 10, 2024 | Pass | |
| December 4, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| December 7, 2022 | Pass | |
| January 28, 2021 | — | |
| October 1, 2020 | Pass | |
| January 31, 2020 | Pass |
Royce Chocolate 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 September 24, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.