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) • Food handlers without hats. Provide hats or hair restraints for food handlers.
  Effectiveness-Hair Restraints (C) • Food handlers without hats. Provide hats or hair restraints for food handlers.
• ⚠️Packaged and Unpackaged Food-Separation Packaging and Segregation (P) • Rw eggs stored above produce and ready to eat foods in refrigerator. Raw beef stored in same container with salmon and tuna. Store raw animal products below produce and ready to eat foods. Corrected on site.critical
  Packaged and Unpackaged Food-Separation Packaging and Segregation (P) • Rw eggs stored above produce and ready to eat foods in refrigerator. Raw beef stored in same container with salmon and tuna. Store raw animal products below produce and ready to eat foods. Corrected on site.
• ⚠️Thawing (C) • Reduced oxygen packaged tuna thawed in refrigerator. Pierce or remove packaging prior to thawing.
  Thawing (C) • Reduced oxygen packaged tuna thawed in refrigerator. Pierce or remove packaging prior to thawing.
• ⚠️Consumption of Animal Foods that are Raw Undercooked or Not Otherwise Processed to Eliminate Pathogens (Pf) • Raw and undercooked items on menu do not correspond to consumer advisory on menu. Indicate which items are raw including cokcktails with egg whites.
  Consumption of Animal Foods that are Raw Undercooked or Not Otherwise Processed to Eliminate Pathogens (Pf) • Raw and undercooked items on menu do not correspond to consumer advisory on menu. Indicate which items are raw including cokcktails with egg whites.
• ⚠️Time as a Public Health Control ( Pf) • No written procedures for holding sushi rice with Time as public health control. Provide documentation to ISD for approval.
  Time as a Public Health Control ( Pf) • No written procedures for holding sushi rice with Time as public health control. Provide documentation to ISD for approval.
• ⚠️Mechanical Warewashing Equipment Hot Water Sanitization Temperatures (Pf) • High temp dish machine not rinsing over 126F. Service as needed. Sanitize all food contact surfaces in 3 compartment sink.
  Mechanical Warewashing Equipment Hot Water Sanitization Temperatures (Pf) • High temp dish machine not rinsing over 126F. Service as needed. Sanitize all food contact surfaces in 3 compartment sink.
• ⚠️Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Soils and spills in cook station refrigerator. Debris and moisture on floor under kitchen equipment. Floor drain at bar with soils and black mold-like substance. Clean all areas to avoid attracting pests.
  Nonfood Contact Surfaces (C) • Soils and spills in cook station refrigerator. Debris and moisture on floor under kitchen equipment. Floor drain at bar with soils and black mold-like substance. Clean all areas to avoid attracting pests.
• ⚠️System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • Rinse sink in kitchen leaks. Repair as needed.
  System Maintained in Good Repair (C) • Rinse sink in kitchen leaks. Repair as needed.
• ⚠️Toilet Rooms Enclosed (C) • Bathroom doors are not self-closing. Install hardware as needed to ensure doors are self closing.
  Toilet Rooms Enclosed (C) • Bathroom doors are not self-closing. Install hardware as needed to ensure doors are self closing.
• ⚠️Removing Dead or Trapped Birds Insects Rodents and other Pest (C) • Fly strip in kitchen with dead flies. Discard strips before preparing food.
  Removing Dead or Trapped Birds Insects Rodents and other Pest (C) • Fly strip in kitchen with dead flies. Discard strips before preparing food.
• ⚠️Sanitizers Criteria-Chemicals (P) • Quats sanitizer testing over 500ppm. Diluted to 200ppm. Retrain staff to safely mix sanitizer.critical
  Sanitizers Criteria-Chemicals (P) • Quats sanitizer testing over 500ppm. Diluted to 200ppm. Retrain staff to safely mix sanitizer.

When was Birds Of Paradise last inspected?

Birds Of Paradise has 5 inspections on record going back to December 13, 2022.

Birds Of Paradise vs Brighton

Brighton runs 83% clean across 486 tracked restaurants — 393 clean, 43 mid, 35 cooked.

Against the 486 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.

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.