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The Wild Duck
- resultPass
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 31, 2022
- address96 Salem St, Boston 02113
Is The Wild Duck clean?
The Wild Duck is currently Pass from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on October 31, 2022. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at The Wild Duck?
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 31, 2022. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
When was The Wild Duck last inspected?
The Wild Duck has 29 inspections on record going back to August 1, 2007. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 31, 2022 | Pass | |
| March 15, 2022 | — | |
| January 25, 2022 | Pass | |
| July 27, 2021 | Pass | |
| July 28, 2020 | Pass | |
| December 2, 2019 | Pass | |
| July 19, 2018 | Pass | |
| October 24, 2017 | Pass | |
| December 14, 2016 | Pass | |
| March 13, 2015 | — | |
| February 25, 2015 | Pass | |
| February 24, 2014 | — |
The Wild Duck vs North End
North End runs 88% clean across 717 tracked restaurants — 579 clean, 37 mid, 40 cooked.
Against the 717 spots Cooked tracks in North End, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 October 31, 2022. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.