George Howell Coffee

408 Newbury St, Boston, MA 02215

Passed re-check · May 21, 2026 Directions
72
Fair BiteKarma score 72 out of 100
How the BiteKarma score works

Each routine inspection starts at 100 and loses 7 points for every critical violation and 2 for every other one, half again as much when the same problem was cited at one of the two inspections before. A failed inspection counts as 69 at most. The score averages the five newest routine inspections, with the most recent counting most, and stays below 70 for 90 days after a fail unless the restaurant passes again. 90 and up is excellent, 80s good, 70s fair, and below 70 poor.

At a glance

  • Last inspected May 21, 2026: passed with no violations. That was a follow-up after failing on May 13, 2026.
  • Passed 2 of 3 graded inspections since 2025.
  • 5 critical violations in the last two years.

Inspection history 3 visits

  1. 2026
  2. Passed May 21

    Reinspection

    No violations

  3. Failed May 13

    Inspection

    7 violations, 5 critical
    • Critical Clean-up of vomiting and diarrheal events
    • Critical Packaged and unpackaged food-separation packaging and segregation
    • Critical Manual and mechanical warewashing equipment chemical sanitization-temperature pH concentration and hardness
    • Critical Consumption of animal foods that are raw undercooked or not otherwise processed to eliminate pathogens
    • Critical Temperature measuring devices manual and mechanical warewashing
    • Minor Temperature measuring devices-functionality
    • L1
  4. 2025
  5. Perfect Aug 18

    Inspection

    No violations

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