Bel Ami

• gradeGrade A ⏳
• grade postedDecember 1, 2025
• inspection score18 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedSeptember 29, 2026 →
• address866 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan 10065
• cuisineCoffee/Tea
• phone2126748020

Is Bel Ami clean?

Bel Ami currently carries Grade A ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). It was posted on December 1, 2025 and still stands. The place has been inspected again since — on September 29, 2026 scoring 18 points — but NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has not ruled on that visit, so no new grade has been issued. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder the posted grade reads clean 😇; the numbers above come from the newer visit.

What did inspectors find at Bel Ami?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 29, 2026, 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.
• 🍽️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 Bel Ami last inspected?

Bel Ami has 7 inspections on record going back to December 16, 2022, averaging 22 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Bel Ami vs Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill

Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill runs 83% clean across 370 tracked restaurants — 270 clean, 19 mid, 38 cooked.

Against the 370 spots Cooked tracks in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 66% 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 September 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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