Black Star Bakery & Cafe

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score9 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 3, 2025 →
• address548 Driggs Avenue, Brooklyn 11211
• cuisineCoffee/Tea
• phone3479160158

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 October 3, 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 October 3, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Failure to post or conspicuously post healthy eating information
• ⚠️Contract with a pest management professional not in place. Record of extermination activities not kept on premises.
• 🧫food contact surfaces dirty
  Design, construction, materials used or maintenance of food contact surface improper. Surface not easily cleanable, sanitized and maintained.
• 🐈random live animals insidecritical
  Live animal other than fish in tank or service animal present in facility’s food or non-food area.
• ⚠️Providing single-use, non-compostable plastic straws to customers without customer request (including providing such straws at a self-serve station)
• ⚠️Providing single-use plastic stirrers or single-use plastic splash sticks.
• 🚿plumbing acting up
  Anti-siphonage or back-flow prevention device not provided where required; equipment or floor not properly drained; sewage disposal system in disrepair or not functioning properly. Condensation or liquid waste improperly disposed of.

When was Black Star Bakery & Cafe last inspected?

Black Star Bakery & Cafe has 3 inspections on record going back to March 10, 2023, averaging 5 points.

Black Star Bakery & Cafe vs North Side-South Side

North Side-South Side runs 80% clean across 581 tracked restaurants — 397 clean, 25 mid, 73 cooked.

Against the 581 spots Cooked tracks in North Side-South Side, 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.

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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 October 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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