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Bbq Chicken
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 5, 2025
- address62 Boylston St, Boston 02116
Is Bbq Chicken clean?
Bbq Chicken is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 5, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Bbq Chicken?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Where to Wash (Pf) • Observed employee rinse hands with dishwasher spray hose. Discontinue. Use hand sinks to properly wash hands.Where to Wash (Pf) • Observed employee rinse hands with dishwasher spray hose. Discontinue. Use hand sinks to properly wash hands.
- ⚠️Effectiveness-Hair Restraints (C) • Employees on production line observed without hair restraints. Provide.Effectiveness-Hair Restraints (C) • Employees on production line observed without hair restraints. Provide.
- ⚠️Miscellaneous Sources of Contamination (C) • Employee observed eating in food prep area. Discontinue.Miscellaneous Sources of Contamination (C) • Employee observed eating in food prep area. Discontinue.
- ⚠️Using a Handwashing Sink-Operation and Maintenance (Pf) • Pot observed in production line hand sink. Hand sinks should only be used for handwashing.Using a Handwashing Sink-Operation and Maintenance (Pf) • Pot observed in production line hand sink. Hand sinks should only be used for handwashing.
- ⚠️Maintaining Refuse Areas and Enclosures (C) • Excess oil containers and boxes in back hallway area. Remove excess grease properly and clean all excess trash.Maintaining Refuse Areas and Enclosures (C) • Excess oil containers and boxes in back hallway area. Remove excess grease properly and clean all excess trash.
When was Bbq Chicken last inspected?
Bbq Chicken has 45 inspections on record going back to July 20, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 5, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 28, 2025 | Fail | |
| February 19, 2025 | Pass | |
| February 12, 2025 | Fail | |
| September 11, 2024 | Pass | |
| September 3, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 23, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 16, 2024 | Fail | |
| May 18, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 11, 2023 | Fail | |
| February 27, 2023 | Pass | |
| January 18, 2023 | — |
Bbq Chicken vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 85% clean across 307 tracked restaurants — 252 clean, 22 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 307 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 15% of them.
Other spots in Chinatown
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 November 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.