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Side Chick
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMay 26, 2026
- address692 Columbia Rd, Dorchester 02125
Is Side Chick clean?
Side Chick is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 26, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Side Chick?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 26, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️(A)(1) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • Mac & Cheese @ 100f Chicken @ 116f Ensure proper hot hold of 135f or above Chef reheating all products to 165f at time of inspectioncritical(A)(1) Time/Temperature Control for Safety Food Hot and Cold Holding (P) • Mac & Cheese @ 100f Chicken @ 116f Ensure proper hot hold of 135f or above Chef reheating all products to 165f at time of inspection
When was Side Chick last inspected?
Side Chick has 34 inspections on record going back to February 14, 2022. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 26, 2026 | Pass | |
| May 19, 2026 | Fail | |
| March 13, 2026 | Pass | |
| March 2, 2026 | Fail | |
| November 4, 2025 | Pass | |
| October 27, 2025 | Fail | |
| June 11, 2025 | Pass | |
| June 4, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 31, 2025 | Pass | |
| March 5, 2025 | Fail | |
| March 4, 2025 | Fail | |
| February 26, 2025 | Fail |
Side Chick vs Roxbury
Roxbury runs 83% clean across 708 tracked restaurants — 559 clean, 69 mid, 49 cooked.
Against the 708 spots Cooked tracks in Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 May 26, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.