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Beso Restaurant And Bar
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMay 23, 2025
- address370 Lewis Avenue, Brooklyn 11233
- cuisineCaribbean
- phone3479152900
Is Beso Restaurant And Bar clean?
Beso Restaurant And Bar is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on May 23, 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 Beso Restaurant And Bar?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Current letter grade or Grade Pending card not postedCurrent letter grade or Grade Pending card not posted
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcriticalAfter cooking or removal from hot holding, TCS food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal temperature is reduced from 140 °F to 70 °F or less within 2 hours, and from 70 °F to 41 °F or less within 4 additional hours.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcriticalFood contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
When was Beso Restaurant And Bar last inspected?
Beso Restaurant And Bar has 5 inspections on record going back to September 8, 2022, averaging 25 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 23, 2025 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| February 10, 2025 | Grade C | 33 pts |
| October 16, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 62 pts |
| May 22, 2023 | Grade B | 17 pts |
| September 8, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
Beso Restaurant And Bar vs Stuyvesant Heights
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.
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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 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.