Backyard Pizza Cafe

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score27 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedDecember 24, 2024 →
• address2113 Avenue Z, Brooklyn 11235
• cuisinePizza
• phone7184000404

Is Backyard Pizza Cafe clean?

Backyard Pizza Cafe is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on December 24, 2024. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Backyard Pizza Cafe?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 24, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
• 🍽️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.

When was Backyard Pizza Cafe last inspected?

Backyard Pizza Cafe has 4 inspections on record going back to January 22, 2024, averaging 32 points.

Backyard Pizza Cafe vs Sheepshead Bay-Gerritsen Beach-Manhattan Beach

Sheepshead Bay-Gerritsen Beach-Manhattan Beach runs 84% clean across 153 tracked restaurants — 117 clean, 9 mid, 14 cooked.

Against the 153 spots Cooked tracks in Sheepshead Bay-Gerritsen Beach-Manhattan Beach, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 December 24, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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