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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 Mar 3, 2026: passed with no violations. That was a follow-up after failing on Feb 26, 2026.
- Keeps coming up: Shellstock maintaining identification, cited 4 times, plus 11 other repeat issues.
- #39 in Boston's Hall of Shame, among the lowest BiteKarma scores in the city.
- Passed 5 of 11 graded inspections since 2023.
- 12 critical violations in the last two years.
Inspection history 11 visits
- 2026
- Passed Mar 3
Reinspection
No violations
- Failed Feb 26
Inspection
12 violations, 5 critical
- Critical Shellstock maintaining identification
- Critical Demonstration
- Critical Clean-up of vomiting and diarrheal events
- Critical Handwashing sinks installation
- Critical Packaged and unpackaged food-separation packaging and segregation
- Minor In-use utensils between-use storage
- Minor Good repair and proper adjustment-equipment
- Minor Cutting surfaces
- Minor Cleaning ventilation systems nuisance and discharge prohibition
- Minor System maintained in good repair
- Minor Nonfood-contact surfaces
- L1
- 2025
- Passed Jul 29
Reinspection
No violations
- Failed Jul 18
Inspection
8 violations, 6 critical
- Critical Sanitizing solutions testing devices
- Critical Ice used as exterior coolant prohibited as ingredient
- Critical Shellstock maintaining identification
- Critical Equipment food-contact surfaces nonfood-contact surfaces and utensils
- Critical Common name-working containers
- Critical Packaged and unpackaged food-separation packaging and segregation
- Minor Nonfood-contact surfaces
- Minor Nonfood-contact surfaces
Nearby
BiteKarma scores around PURO ceviche bar, which is the dark pin. Zoom in to see the dots' scores, and tap a pin marked + to see everything at that address.