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Artisan Cafe
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMay 6, 2025
- address608A Amsterdam Avenue, Manhattan 10024
- cuisineCoffee/Tea
- phone2019135001
Is Artisan Cafe clean?
Artisan Cafe is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on May 6, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Artisan Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧼staff skipping handwashingcriticalPersonal cleanliness is inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn where required. Jewelry worn on hands or arms. Fingernail polish worn or fingernails not kept clean and trimmed.
- 🐛pest / contamination issuecriticalProperly scaled and calibrated thermometer or thermocouple not provided or not readily accessible in food preparation and hot/cold holding areas to measure temperatures of TCS foods during cooking, cooling, reheating, and holding.
When was Artisan Cafe last inspected?
Artisan Cafe has 5 inspections on record going back to July 5, 2022, averaging 9 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2025 | Grade A | 10 pts |
| April 16, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 19 pts |
| February 1, 2024 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| August 3, 2022 | Grade A | 5 pts |
| July 5, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
Artisan Cafe vs Upper West Side
Upper West Side runs 81% clean across 416 tracked restaurants — 315 clean, 20 mid, 56 cooked.
Against the 416 spots Cooked tracks in Upper West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 52% 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 May 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.