Blue Cafe Restaurant & Bar

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score14 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedNovember 12, 2025
• address82-63 Broadway, Queens 11373
• cuisineLatin American
• phone7183960717

Is Blue Cafe Restaurant & Bar clean?

Blue Cafe Restaurant & Bar is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on November 12, 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 Blue Cafe Restaurant & Bar?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 12, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍽️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.
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical
  Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
• 🛠️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.
• 🚿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.
• ⚠️Failure to display required signage about plastic straw availability
  Failure to display required signage about plastic straw availability

When was Blue Cafe Restaurant & Bar last inspected?

Blue Cafe Restaurant & Bar has 4 inspections on record going back to May 22, 2023, averaging 30 points.

Blue Cafe Restaurant & Bar vs Elmhurst

Elmhurst runs 73% clean across 290 tracked restaurants — 203 clean, 36 mid, 40 cooked.

Against the 290 spots Cooked tracks in Elmhurst, this one comes out cleaner than 26% 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 12, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.