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Friendship Bbq
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 23, 2025
- address40 Harrison Av, Boston 02111
Is Friendship Bbq clean?
Friendship Bbq is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 23, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Friendship Bbq?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • Hood sticker observed expired. Hood filters with built up grease. Clean to remove and update hood sticker.Cleaning Ventilation Systems Nuisance and Discharge Prohibition (C) • Hood sticker observed expired. Hood filters with built up grease. Clean to remove and update hood sticker.
When was Friendship Bbq last inspected?
Friendship Bbq has 36 inspections on record going back to December 30, 2015. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 23, 2025 | Pass | |
| April 18, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 11, 2025 | Fail | |
| May 1, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 22, 2024 | Fail | |
| March 13, 2024 | Pass | |
| March 6, 2024 | Fail | |
| October 4, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 27, 2023 | Fail | |
| May 1, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 26, 2023 | Fail | |
| April 19, 2023 | Fail |
Friendship Bbq vs Downtown
Downtown runs 89% clean across 1,016 tracked restaurants — 851 clean, 49 mid, 61 cooked.
Against the 1,016 spots Cooked tracks in Downtown, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 April 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.