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Best Garden Chinese Restaurant
- gradeGrade A ⏳
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJanuary 9, 2025
- address44-35 Douglaston Parkway, Queens 11363
- cuisineChinese
- phone7186311888
Is Best Garden Chinese Restaurant clean?
Best Garden Chinese Restaurant is currently Grade A ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on January 9, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇. There is a newer inspection the city has not ruled on yet, so the posted grade still stands for now.
What did inspectors find at Best Garden Chinese Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 9, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcriticalFood, 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.
- 🌡️fridge is giving… room tempcriticalCold TCS food item held above 41 °F; smoked or processed fish held above 38 °F; intact raw eggs held above 45 °F; or reduced oxygen packaged (ROP) TCS foods held above required temperatures except during active necessary preparation.
When was Best Garden Chinese Restaurant last inspected?
Best Garden Chinese Restaurant has 5 inspections on record going back to May 13, 2022, averaging 22 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 25, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 31 pts |
| January 9, 2025 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| January 8, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 35 pts |
| April 13, 2023 | Grade C | 33 pts |
| May 13, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
Best Garden Chinese Restaurant vs Douglas Manor-Douglaston-Little Neck
Douglas Manor-Douglaston-Little Neck runs 81% clean across 76 tracked restaurants — 56 clean, 2 mid, 11 cooked.
Against the 76 spots Cooked tracks in Douglas Manor-Douglaston-Little Neck, this one comes out cleaner than 29% 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 January 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.