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Best Fried Chicken
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 6, 2026
- address1198 Blue Hill Av, Mattapan 02126
Is Best Fried Chicken clean?
Best Fried Chicken is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 6, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Best Fried Chicken?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 6, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Backflow Prevention Air Gap (P) • Prep sinks without proper air gap for backflow prevention. Provide. Use a colander until properly plumbed.provide a license plumber's report and building 1-15-26: On compliance visit business No invoice or final plumbing permit was presented for work done Please provide a plumbers report and a permit to do work will need to be pulled so it can be inspectedcriticalBackflow Prevention Air Gap (P) • Prep sinks without proper air gap for backflow prevention. Provide. Use a colander until properly plumbed.provide a license plumber's report and building 1-15-26: On compliance visit business No invoice or final plumbing permit was presented for work done Please provide a plumbers report and a permit to do work will need to be pulled so it can be inspected
When was Best Fried Chicken last inspected?
Best Fried Chicken has 28 inspections on record going back to May 7, 2021. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 6, 2026 | Pass | |
| February 24, 2026 | Fail | |
| February 12, 2026 | Fail | |
| January 30, 2026 | Fail | |
| January 15, 2026 | — | |
| January 8, 2026 | Fail | |
| July 17, 2025 | — | |
| July 11, 2025 | Fail | |
| January 27, 2025 | Pass | |
| January 15, 2025 | Fail | |
| August 7, 2024 | — | |
| July 31, 2024 | Fail |
Best Fried Chicken vs Mattapan
Mattapan runs 77% clean across 299 tracked restaurants — 217 clean, 38 mid, 26 cooked.
Against the 299 spots Cooked tracks in Mattapan, this one comes out cleaner than 22% 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 March 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.