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Backwoods Pizza
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedSeptember 13, 2019
- address539 Dudley St, Roxbury 02119
Is Backwoods Pizza clean?
Backwoods Pizza is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on September 13, 2019. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Backwoods Pizza?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 13, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Clean top of pizza oven.Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Clean top of pizza oven.
- ⚠️In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • Discontinue to store tongs for deep fry on barrer for hand sink.In-Use Utensils Between-Use Storage (C) • Discontinue to store tongs for deep fry on barrer for hand sink.
- ⚠️Ventilation Hood Systems Filters (C) • Clean hood filters. Visibly soiled. Hood sticker good until Feb 2020Ventilation Hood Systems Filters (C) • Clean hood filters. Visibly soiled. Hood sticker good until Feb 2020
- ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Clean walls behind cooking equipment and around hot holding unit.Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Clean walls behind cooking equipment and around hot holding unit.
When was Backwoods Pizza last inspected?
Backwoods Pizza has 53 inspections on record going back to October 2, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| January 8, 2021 | — | |
| September 2, 2020 | — | |
| March 12, 2020 | — | |
| September 13, 2019 | Pass | |
| September 5, 2019 | Fail | |
| March 26, 2019 | — | |
| March 19, 2019 | Fail | |
| August 16, 2018 | Pass | |
| July 31, 2018 | Fail | |
| January 29, 2018 | Pass | |
| January 22, 2018 | Fail |
Backwoods Pizza vs Roxbury
Roxbury runs 83% clean across 708 tracked restaurants — 559 clean, 69 mid, 49 cooked.
Against the 708 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 September 13, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.