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#1 Garden Chinese Restaurant
- gradeGrade A ⏳
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 2, 2024
- address221 Prospect Park West, Brooklyn 11215
- cuisineChinese
- phone9172508950
Is #1 Garden Chinese Restaurant clean?
#1 Garden Chinese Restaurant is currently Grade A ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on July 2, 2024. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇. There is a newer inspection the city has not ruled on yet, so the posted grade still stands for now.
What did inspectors find at #1 Garden Chinese Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 2, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧫food contact surfaces dirtyDesign, construction, materials used or maintenance of food contact surface improper. Surface not easily cleanable, sanitized and maintained.
- 🧫equipment / surface issueSwollen, leaking, rusted or otherwise damaged canned food to be returned to distributor not segregated from intact product and clearly labeled DO NOT USE
- 🪳roaches are dining toocriticalLive roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
When was #1 Garden Chinese Restaurant last inspected?
#1 Garden Chinese Restaurant has 2 inspections on record going back to July 2, 2024, averaging 18 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 19, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 23 pts |
| July 2, 2024 | Grade A | 13 pts |
#1 Garden Chinese Restaurant vs Windsor Terrace
Windsor Terrace runs 89% clean across 66 tracked restaurants — 55 clean, 2 mid, 5 cooked.
Against the 66 spots Cooked tracks in Windsor Terrace, this one comes out cleaner than 18% of them.
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How New York grades restaurants
New York City health inspectors score violations in points, and lower is better: 0–13 points earns an A, 14–27 a B, and 28 or more a C. Every restaurant is inspected at least once a year, and the letter has to be posted in the window. A restaurant that scores 14 or more on the first inspection of a cycle does not get a letter right away — it stays “Grade Pending” until a re-inspection settles it, which is why some spots here show an hourglass instead of a letter. Cooked only ever shows a letter the city actually posted; we never infer one from a score.
Source: NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) via NYC Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated July 2, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.