• resultFail
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJanuary 30, 2026 →
• address436 Western Av, Brighton 02135

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Is Big Daddy's Pizza clean?

Big Daddy's Pizza is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 30, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Big Daddy's Pizza?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 30, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Eating Drinking or Using Tobacco (C)
• ⚠️Effectiveness-Hair Restraints (C)
• ⚠️(A) (B) and (C)(1) (4)-(16) Demonstration (Pf)
• ⚠️(A)(1) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P)critical
• ⚠️(A) Equipment Food-Contact Surfaces Nonfood-Contact Surfaces and Utensils (Pf)
• ⚠️Controlling Pests (Pf)
• ⚠️Repairing-Premises Structures Attachments and Fixtures-Methods (C)
• ⚠️flagged at inspection

Big Daddy's Pizza inspection and administrative history

Big Daddy's Pizza has 26 inspections on record going back to September 28, 2022. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Big Daddy's Pizza vs Brighton

Brighton runs 85% clean across 480 tracked restaurants — 395 clean, 37 mid, 33 cooked.

Against the 480 spots Cooked tracks in Brighton, this one comes out cleaner than 4% of them.

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  clean · January 17, 2026
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  clean · October 20, 2025
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• ✓ New Hong Kong
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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 30, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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