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Black Star Bakery & Cafe
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score9 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedNovember 24, 2025
- address241 East 24 Street, Manhattan 10010
- cuisineCoffee/Tea
- phone3479470005
Is Black Star Bakery & Cafe clean?
Black Star Bakery & Cafe is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on November 24, 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 Black Star Bakery & Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 24, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🪰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.
When was Black Star Bakery & Cafe last inspected?
Black Star Bakery & Cafe has 4 inspections on record going back to February 15, 2023, averaging 13 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 24, 2025 | Grade A | 9 pts |
| August 30, 2024 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| May 22, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 19 pts |
| February 15, 2023 | Grade A | 11 pts |
Black Star Bakery & Cafe vs Murray Hill-Kips Bay
Murray Hill-Kips Bay runs 79% clean across 372 tracked restaurants — 271 clean, 23 mid, 48 cooked.
Against the 372 spots Cooked tracks in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 72% 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 November 24, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.