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Yellowbird Chicken
- resultFail
- critical violations0
- last inspectedApril 25, 2025
- address239 Grove St, West Roxbury 02132
Is Yellowbird Chicken clean?
Yellowbird Chicken is currently Fail from Boston Inspectional Services, Health Division, from an inspection on April 25, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Yellowbird Chicken?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 25, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Ventilation Hood Systems Filters (C) • PIC will need to clean the hood filters on the cooking line. Hood sticker id expired in Feb 2025. Please have hood cleaned. 4-25-25 At this time PIC has not cleaned the hood and will be closing the store today. Please have the hood cleaned if you plan to be open.Ventilation Hood Systems Filters (C) • PIC will need to clean the hood filters on the cooking line. Hood sticker id expired in Feb 2025. Please have hood cleaned. 4-25-25 At this time PIC has not cleaned the hood and will be closing the store today. Please have the hood cleaned if you plan to be open.
- ⚠️Cutting Surfaces (C) • PIC will need to clean the cutting boards on the cooking line.Cutting Surfaces (C) • PIC will need to clean the cutting boards on the cooking line.
- ⚠️Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Clean the floor under the cooking equipment for grime build up.Floors Walls and Ceilings-Cleanability (C) • Clean the floor under the cooking equipment for grime build up.
When was Yellowbird Chicken last inspected?
Yellowbird Chicken has 44 inspections on record going back to May 18, 2016. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 1, 2025 | closed by the city | |
| April 25, 2025 | Fail | |
| April 16, 2025 | Fail | |
| November 13, 2024 | Pass | |
| October 21, 2024 | Fail | |
| May 1, 2024 | Pass | |
| April 24, 2024 | Fail | |
| January 3, 2024 | — | |
| May 15, 2023 | Pass | |
| April 26, 2023 | Fail | |
| October 13, 2022 | Pass | |
| October 6, 2022 | Fail |
Yellowbird Chicken vs West Roxbury
West Roxbury runs 86% clean across 201 tracked restaurants — 165 clean, 15 mid, 12 cooked.
Against the 201 spots Cooked tracks in West Roxbury, this one comes out cleaner than 13% 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 April 25, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.