Beantown Kebab

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

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) • Raw Chicken and Raw Beef sitting on prep table @ 50f ensure proper cold hold of 41f or belowcritical
  (A)(2) and (B) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • Raw Chicken and Raw Beef sitting on prep table @ 50f ensure proper cold hold of 41f or below
• ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (P) • Faucet at hand sink not operating properly and sink not draining properly repair bothcritical
  System Maintained in Good Repair (P) • Faucet at hand sink not operating properly and sink not draining properly repair both
• ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings Utility Lines (C) • 1)Floor at cooking line with grease build up clean to remove 2)Hood vents with grease build up clean to remove 3)Hood sticker expired in February of 2024 have cleaned by licensed hood cleaning company with BFD
  Floors Walls and Ceilings Utility Lines (C) • 1)Floor at cooking line with grease build up clean to remove 2)Hood vents with grease build up clean to remove 3)Hood sticker expired in February of 2024 have cleaned by licensed hood cleaning company with BFD

When was Beantown Kebab last inspected?

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

Beantown Kebab vs Downtown

Downtown runs 90% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 866 clean, 53 mid, 42 cooked.

Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 2% of them.

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• ✓ Warehouse Bar & Grille
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• ✓ Santander Bank Executive Dining Room
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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 January 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.