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Billy's Sub Shop
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedJanuary 8, 2026
- address57 Berkeley St, Boston 02116
Is Billy's Sub Shop clean?
Billy's Sub Shop is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on January 8, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Billy's Sub Shop?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 8, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Cooling Heating and Holding Capacities-Equipment (Pf) • Service line refrigerator inoperable. PIC is supplementing indirect contact with ice for cold holding on a temporary basis. Make all necesary repairs.Cooling Heating and Holding Capacities-Equipment (Pf) • Service line refrigerator inoperable. PIC is supplementing indirect contact with ice for cold holding on a temporary basis. Make all necesary repairs.
- ⚠️Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • Hood sticker is expired. Provide current.Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • Hood sticker is expired. Provide current.
When was Billy's Sub Shop last inspected?
Billy's Sub Shop has 59 inspections on record going back to January 28, 2008. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 8, 2026 | Pass | |
| January 5, 2026 | Fail | |
| December 29, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 23, 2025 | — | |
| April 18, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 11, 2025 | Fail | |
| June 7, 2024 | — | |
| May 31, 2024 | Fail | |
| March 20, 2024 | Fail | |
| March 13, 2024 | Fail | |
| September 1, 2023 | — | |
| January 24, 2023 | — |
Billy's Sub Shop vs Bay Village
Bay Village runs 88% clean across 350 tracked restaurants — 292 clean, 16 mid, 22 cooked.
Against the 350 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Village, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 January 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.