State guide

Restaurant health inspection grades in Rhode Island

GradeLocal lists 866 Rhode Island restaurants. Their average score is 80.0, a B. This guide explains who inspects them, what the results mean and how the grades break down.

866restaurants listed

80.0 · Baverage score

5counties covered

Oct 13, 2026latest inspection date

See every Rhode Island grade

Who inspects restaurants in Rhode Island

Rhode Island Department of Health. Violation counts.

Coverage: Statewide, all 5 counties. All sources

What Rhode Island publishes

The agencies behind our Rhode Island listings publish violation counts. None of them publish a score out of 100, so every Rhode Island score on GradeLocal is a GradeLocal score, worked out from the official result.

How GradeLocal grades Rhode Island restaurants

For violation counts, we count every violation in the latest inspection. None is an A, 1 or 2 is a B, 3 to 5 is a C, and 6 or more is a D. An emergency closure order is also a D.

Results with no score of their own get a set score for each letter: A is 95, B is 85, C is 72 and D is 50.

There are four letters, A to D, with no F. The same rule applies in every state, and the cutoffs are never adjusted for a state, county or city. We always use the latest inspection.

How grades work has the full rules.

Most common official results in our Rhode Island data, and the letter each became
Official result	Letter	Listings
0 violations	A	214
1 violation	B	155
2 violations	B	150
3 violations	C	108
4 violations	C	91
5 violations	C	58
6 violations	D	35
7 violations	D	24

How Rhode Island restaurants grade

The latest grade for each of the 866 listings.

214

24.7% · grade A

305

35.2% · grade B

257

29.7% · grade C

10.4% · grade D

Inspection dates in our Rhode Island data run from Jan 8, 2024 to Oct 13, 2026. 629 of the 866 listings (72.6%) were inspected in the 12 months before Oct 16, 2026. A restaurant may have been inspected again since.

Top-rated places in Rhode Island

Every A-grade place in our Rhode Island data gets the same GradeLocal score (95), so this list shows the ten most recently inspected A-grade places, one per name.

A grade shows one inspection on one day. Check the official record linked on each page.

Counties in Rhode Island

Every county with at least one listing. Pick one to see its restaurants.

County	Restaurants	Average
Bristol County	40	81.2 · B
Kent County	132	82.7 · B
Newport County	80	78.3 · C
Providence County	492	78.3 · C
Washington County	122	84.5 · B

Questions about Rhode Island grades

Who inspects restaurants in Rhode Island?

Rhode Island Department of Health. Violation counts.

What does Rhode Island publish: a score, a letter or something else?

How does GradeLocal grade restaurants in Rhode Island?

For violation counts, we count every violation in the latest inspection. None is an A, 1 or 2 is a B, 3 to 5 is a C, and 6 or more is a D. An emergency closure order is also a D. Results with no score of their own get a set score for each letter: A is 95, B is 85, C is 72 and D is 50. We always use the latest inspection.

How many Rhode Island restaurants are on GradeLocal?

866 restaurants in 5 counties. The average score is 80.0, a B. 24.7% have an A.

How current are the Rhode Island grades?

Inspection dates in our Rhode Island data run from Jan 8, 2024 to Oct 13, 2026. We update each state’s records regularly, but there is always a delay, and a restaurant may have been inspected again since. For the latest official report, follow the agency link on each restaurant’s page.