• resultFail
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJanuary 7, 2025 →
• address44 Kilby St, Boston 02109

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Is Beantown Kebab clean?

Beantown Kebab is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 7, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🚩.

What did inspectors find at Beantown Kebab?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 7, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️(A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P)critical
• ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (P)critical
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings Utility Lines (C)

Beantown Kebab inspection and administrative history

Beantown Kebab has 36 inspections on record going back to June 4, 2012. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 2 of these 8 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

Beantown Kebab vs Downtown

Downtown runs 92% clean across 997 tracked restaurants — 863 clean, 47 mid, 32 cooked.

Against the 997 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 1% of them.

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• ✓ Warehouse Bar & Grille
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• ✓ Santander Bank Executive Dining Room
  clean · December 15, 2016

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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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

Source: Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division via Analyze Boston. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated January 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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