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Hidden Kitchen
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 19, 2025
- address535 Albany St, Roxbury 02118
Is Hidden Kitchen clean?
Hidden Kitchen is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on March 19, 2025. 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 March 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf) • Observed ready to eat chicken / tuna salad stored in reach in unit over 24hrs per PIC without date marking. Instructed PIC to ensure all ready to eat foods held over 24hrs be date marked.Ready-To-Eat Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Date Marking (Pf) • Observed ready to eat chicken / tuna salad stored in reach in unit over 24hrs per PIC without date marking. Instructed PIC to ensure all ready to eat foods held over 24hrs be date marked.
When was Hidden Kitchen last inspected?
Hidden Kitchen has 24 inspections on record going back to January 16, 2020. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 25, 2025 | — | |
| March 19, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 10, 2025 | Fail | |
| November 13, 2024 | Pass | |
| November 5, 2024 | Fail | |
| July 22, 2024 | Pass | |
| January 9, 2024 | Pass | |
| September 21, 2023 | Pass | |
| September 13, 2023 | Fail | |
| May 15, 2023 | Pass | |
| May 8, 2023 | Fail | |
| December 28, 2022 | 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 March 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.