Bake Culture

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 23, 2025 →
• address22 Saint Marks Place, Manhattan 10003
• cuisineAsian/Asian Fusion
• phone6468611576

Is Bake Culture clean?

Bake Culture is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 23, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Bake Culture?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ❓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.
• 🛠️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.

When was Bake Culture last inspected?

Bake Culture has 3 inspections on record going back to June 29, 2023, averaging 17 points.

Bake Culture vs East Village

East Village runs 75% clean across 742 tracked restaurants — 476 clean, 43 mid, 114 cooked.

Against the 742 spots Cooked tracks in East Village, this one comes out cleaner than 49% 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 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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