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The Newbury Street Bar
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 9, 2025
- address15 Arlington St, Boston 02116
Is The Newbury Street Bar clean?
The Newbury Street Bar is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 9, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Newbury Street Bar?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on April 9, 2025. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was The Newbury Street Bar last inspected?
The Newbury Street Bar has 13 inspections on record going back to August 3, 2021. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 9, 2025 | Pass | |
| August 15, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 16, 2024 | Pass | |
| February 8, 2024 | Fail | |
| May 17, 2023 | Pass | |
| February 13, 2023 | Pass | |
| February 6, 2023 | Fail | |
| January 18, 2023 | — | |
| November 17, 2022 | Pass | |
| November 1, 2022 | Fail | |
| April 26, 2022 | Pass | |
| April 12, 2022 | Fail |
The Newbury Street Bar vs Bay Village
Bay Village runs 88% clean across 350 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 16 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 350 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 April 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.