Cooked?Birds Of Paradise
- resultFail
- critical violations2
- last inspectedOctober 2, 2024 →
- address525 Western Av, Brighton 02135
Is Birds Of Paradise clean?
Birds Of Paradise is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 2, 2024. 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 Birds Of Paradise?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 2, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Effectiveness-Hair Restraints (C)
- ⚠️Packaged and Unpackaged Food-Separation Packaging and Segregation (P)critical
- ⚠️Thawing (C)
- ⚠️Consumption of Animal Foods that are Raw Undercooked or Not Otherwise Processed to Eliminate Pathogens (Pf)
- ⚠️Time as a Public Health Control ( Pf)
- ⚠️Mechanical Warewashing Equipment Hot Water Sanitization Temperatures (Pf)
- ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C)
- ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C)
- ⚠️Toilet Rooms Enclosed (C)
- ⚠️Removing Dead or Trapped Birds Insects Rodents and other Pest (C)
- ⚠️Sanitizers Criteria-Chemicals (P)critical
Birds Of Paradise inspection and administrative history
Birds Of Paradise has 5 inspections on record going back to December 13, 2022.
September 5, 2025 Administrative record filed
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →October 9, 2024 Administrative record filed
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →October 2, 2024 Fail
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View full inspection →January 3, 2024 Inspection not required
This is an administrative record, not a health inspection.
View full inspection →December 13, 2022 Pass
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View full inspection →Birds Of Paradise 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 1% 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.
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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 October 2, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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