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Best Buds Burgers
- gradeGrade pending
- inspection score17 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedSeptember 25, 2025
- address59-15 71 Avenue, Queens 11385
- cuisineHamburgers
- phone8586920414
Is Best Buds Burgers clean?
New York currently lists Best Buds Burgers as grade pending, following an inspection on September 25, 2025 that scored 17 points. The city has not posted a letter yet, and it will not until a re-inspection settles it.
What did inspectors find at Best Buds Burgers?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 25, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🪰flies in the housecriticalFilth flies or food/refuse/sewage associated with (FRSA) flies or other nuisance pests in establishment’s food and/or non-food areas. FRSA flies include house flies, blow flies, bottle flies, flesh flies, drain flies, Phorid flies and fruit flies.
- 🔪cross-contamination riskcriticalRaw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
When was Best Buds Burgers last inspected?
Best Buds Burgers has 1 inspection on record going back to September 25, 2025, averaging 17 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 25, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 17 pts |
Best Buds Burgers vs Ridgewood
Ridgewood runs 78% clean across 286 tracked restaurants — 201 clean, 30 mid, 27 cooked.
Against the 286 spots Cooked tracks in Ridgewood, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 September 25, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.