• resultFail
• critical violations0
• last inspectedMay 22, 2009 →
• address850 Massachusetts Av, Boston 02118

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Is South Bay Grill clean?

South Bay Grill is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on May 22, 2009. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at South Bay Grill?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 22, 2009, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Food Utensil Storage
• ⚠️Non-Food Contact Surfaces
• ⚠️Hand Cleaner Drying Tissue Signage
• 🧹premises not properly maintained or cleaned
  Improper Maintenance of Walls/Ceilings

South Bay Grill inspection and administrative history

South Bay Grill has 12 inspections on record going back to December 26, 2007.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

History worth a look: 5 of these 7 displayed graded visits read cooked. The current result above stands on its own.

South Bay Grill vs South End

South End runs 83% clean across 682 tracked restaurants — 502 clean, 59 mid, 45 cooked.

Against the 682 spots Cooked tracks in South End, this one comes out cleaner than 12% of them.

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• ✓ Chicago Pizza
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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 May 22, 2009. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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