Select Oyster Bar

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedJuly 7, 2026
• address50 Gloucester St, Boston 02115

Is Select Oyster Bar clean?

Select Oyster Bar is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on July 7, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Select Oyster Bar?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Shell stock Maintaining Identification (Pf) • In stored shellstock tags observed multiple stored shellstock tags missing dates of last sold or used; discussed with person in charge and with the head of the kitchen; all shellstock tags should be filled out with last date sold or used immediately after last sold or used.
  Shell stock Maintaining Identification (Pf) • In stored shellstock tags observed multiple stored shellstock tags missing dates of last sold or used; discussed with person in charge and with the head of the kitchen; all shellstock tags should be filled out with last date sold or used immediately after last sold or used.
• ⚠️Packaged and Unpackaged Food-Separation Packaging and Segregation (C) • In a reach-in refrigerator observed ceviche stored uncovered; foods in storage should be covered to protect from possible contamination.
  Packaged and Unpackaged Food-Separation Packaging and Segregation (C) • In a reach-in refrigerator observed ceviche stored uncovered; foods in storage should be covered to protect from possible contamination.
• ⚠️In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • In multiple areas in the kitchen observed in-use utensils stored in 72F water; in-use utensils should be stored on a clean and sanitized surface in water 135F and above or in cool running water.
  In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • In multiple areas in the kitchen observed in-use utensils stored in 72F water; in-use utensils should be stored on a clean and sanitized surface in water 135F and above or in cool running water.
• ⚠️Nonfood-Contact Surfaces (C) • Observed aluminum foil used to line nonfood contact surfaces on stoves; remove the foil nonfood contact surfaces should be cleanable durable nonporous.
  Nonfood-Contact Surfaces (C) • Observed aluminum foil used to line nonfood contact surfaces on stoves; remove the foil nonfood contact surfaces should be cleanable durable nonporous.

When was Select Oyster Bar last inspected?

Select Oyster Bar has 35 inspections on record going back to March 27, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Select Oyster Bar 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 July 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.