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Hidden Kitchen
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedNovember 13, 2019
- address535 Albany St, Roxbury 02118
Is Hidden Kitchen clean?
Hidden Kitchen is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on November 13, 2019. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Hidden Kitchen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 13, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Warewashing Sinks and Drain boards Self-Draining (C) • Location has a two bay sink to warewash. The sink will need to have drain boards to properly store soiled equipment and also clean equipment to be able to air dry. Discussed with PIC that a three bay sink can be installed if one metal shelf is removed and new sink with drain boards installed. Equipment should not air dry in a empty bay but on a drain board or wire shelf as discussed.Warewashing Sinks and Drain boards Self-Draining (C) • Location has a two bay sink to warewash. The sink will need to have drain boards to properly store soiled equipment and also clean equipment to be able to air dry. Discussed with PIC that a three bay sink can be installed if one metal shelf is removed and new sink with drain boards installed. Equipment should not air dry in a empty bay but on a drain board or wire shelf as discussed.
- ⚠️Approved System and Cleanable Fixtures (P) • Location has a two bay sink with two drain pipes draining into the sanitizer bay. PIC will need to have a licence plumber pull a permit and properly remove the pipes and properly drain to a waste pipe.criticalApproved System and Cleanable Fixtures (P) • Location has a two bay sink with two drain pipes draining into the sanitizer bay. PIC will need to have a licence plumber pull a permit and properly remove the pipes and properly drain to a waste pipe.
When was Hidden Kitchen last inspected?
Hidden Kitchen has 39 inspections on record going back to August 8, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| November 13, 2019 | Pass | |
| October 23, 2019 | Fail | |
| August 15, 2019 | — | |
| February 6, 2019 | Pass | |
| January 28, 2019 | Fail | |
| August 13, 2018 | Pass | |
| June 22, 2018 | Fail | |
| January 9, 2018 | Pass | |
| January 2, 2018 | Fail | |
| May 30, 2017 | Pass | |
| January 23, 2017 | Pass |
Hidden Kitchen vs South End
South End runs 81% clean across 691 tracked restaurants — 498 clean, 63 mid, 54 cooked.
Against the 691 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 November 13, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.