• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedNovember 5, 2014 →
• address20 Charles St, Boston 02108

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Is The Upper Crust clean?

The Upper Crust is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 5, 2014. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at The Upper Crust?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 8 code checks as passed on November 5, 2014.

The Upper Crust inspection and administrative history

The Upper Crust has 28 inspections on record going back to July 9, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.

The Upper Crust vs Beacon Hill

Beacon Hill runs 87% clean across 147 tracked restaurants — 123 clean, 9 mid, 10 cooked.

Against the 147 spots Cooked tracks in Beacon Hill, 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 November 5, 2014. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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