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Better Gourmet Health Kitchen
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedSeptember 8, 2025
- address400 Forest Avenue, Staten Island 10301
- cuisineAmerican
- phone7187272800
Is Better Gourmet Health Kitchen clean?
Better Gourmet Health Kitchen is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 8, 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 Better Gourmet Health Kitchen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 8, 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.
- 🛠️facility / equipment issueAccurate thermometer not provided or properly located in refrigerated, cold storage or hot holding equipment
- ♨️leftovers reheated sketchycriticalTCS food removed from cold holding or prepared from or combined with ingredients at room temperature not cooled by an approved method to 41 °F or below within 4 hours.
When was Better Gourmet Health Kitchen last inspected?
Better Gourmet Health Kitchen has 4 inspections on record going back to September 22, 2022, averaging 17 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 8, 2025 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| June 16, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 20 pts |
| January 19, 2024 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| September 22, 2022 | Grade B | 23 pts |
Better Gourmet Health Kitchen vs New Brighton-Silver Lake
New Brighton-Silver Lake runs 88% clean across 61 tracked restaurants — 45 clean, 0 mid, 6 cooked.
Against the 61 spots Cooked tracks in New Brighton-Silver Lake, this one comes out cleaner than 20% 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 8, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.