162 K-Town Bar

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score27 pts
• critical violations4
• last inspectedOctober 17, 2025 →
• address41-27 162 Street, Queens 11358
• cuisineKorean
• phone9293181005

Is 162 K-Town Bar clean?

162 K-Town Bar is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 17, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at 162 K-Town Bar?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧤food-handling slipcritical
  Tobacco or electronic cigarette use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area.
• 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcritical
  Food, supplies, or equipment not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display, service or from customer’s refillable, reusable container. Condiments not in single-service containers or dispensed directly by the vendor.
• 🍴utensils stored sketchycritical
  Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Non-food contact surface or equipment made of unacceptable material, not kept clean, or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit.
• ❓food from a mystery sourcecritical
  Food, prohibited, from unapproved or unknown source, home canned or home prepared. Animal slaughtered, butchered or dressed (eviscerated, skinned) in establishment. Reduced Oxygen Packaged (ROP) fish not frozen before processing. ROP food prepared on premises transported to another site.

When was 162 K-Town Bar last inspected?

162 K-Town Bar has 4 inspections on record going back to September 5, 2023, averaging 29 points.

162 K-Town Bar vs Murray Hill

Murray Hill runs 68% clean across 228 tracked restaurants — 135 clean, 22 mid, 42 cooked.

Against the 228 spots Cooked tracks in Murray Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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.

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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: 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 October 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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