Aqua is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on December 11, 2024. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 11, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
Aqua has 1 inspection on record going back to December 11, 2024, averaging 12 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 11, 2024 | Grade A | 12 pts |
Stuyvesant Heights runs 79% clean across 155 tracked restaurants — 108 clean, 8 mid, 20 cooked.
Against the 155 spots Cooked tracks in Stuyvesant Heights, this one comes out cleaner than 24% of them.
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 December 11, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.