Best Italian Pizza

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score21 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMarch 17, 2025 →
• address200 East Fordham Road, Bronx 10458
• cuisinePizza
• phone7185625806

Is Best Italian Pizza clean?

Best Italian Pizza is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on March 17, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Best Italian Pizza?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🗑️garbage situation out of pocket
  Pesticide not properly labeled or used by unlicensed individual. Pesticide, other toxic chemical improperly used/stored. Unprotected, unlocked bait station used.
• 🛠️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.
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🍽️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 Best Italian Pizza last inspected?

Best Italian Pizza has 4 inspections on record going back to July 6, 2022, averaging 15 points.

Best Italian Pizza vs Bedford Park-Fordham North

Bedford Park-Fordham North runs 76% clean across 102 tracked restaurants — 73 clean, 7 mid, 16 cooked.

Against the 102 spots Cooked tracks in Bedford Park-Fordham North, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 March 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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