Shy Bird

• resultPass
• critical violations0
• last inspectedAugust 6, 2026 →
• address12 Old Colony Av, South Boston 02127

Is Shy Bird clean?

Shy Bird is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on August 6, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Shy Bird?

No failed findings were recorded. Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division marked 3 code checks as passed on August 6, 2026.

When was Shy Bird last inspected?

Shy Bird has 24 inspections on record going back to December 1, 2022. The 12 most recent are shown below.

Shy Bird vs Chinatown

Chinatown runs 86% clean across 297 tracked restaurants — 245 clean, 22 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 297 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 August 6, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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