Big Chef Restaurant

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedSeptember 5, 2025
• address2948 Avenue S, Brooklyn 11229
• cuisineChinese
• phone7183394843

Is Big Chef Restaurant clean?

Big Chef Restaurant is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 5, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Big Chef Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️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.
• 🍴utensils stored sketchycritical
  Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

When was Big Chef Restaurant last inspected?

Big Chef Restaurant has 2 inspections on record going back to December 5, 2023, averaging 10 points.

Big Chef Restaurant vs Madison

Madison runs 72% clean across 77 tracked restaurants — 51 clean, 10 mid, 10 cooked.

Against the 77 spots Cooked tracks in Madison, this one comes out cleaner than 68% 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 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.