Blue Mountain Heights Cafe & Bar

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJune 3, 2025 →
• address499 West 158 Street, Manhattan 10032
• cuisineCaribbean
• phone6469985905

Is Blue Mountain Heights Cafe & Bar clean?

Blue Mountain Heights Cafe & Bar is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on June 3, 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 Blue Mountain Heights Cafe & Bar?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 3, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧽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.
• 🍽️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.

When was Blue Mountain Heights Cafe & Bar last inspected?

Blue Mountain Heights Cafe & Bar has 4 inspections on record going back to April 6, 2023, averaging 14 points.

Blue Mountain Heights Cafe & Bar vs Washington Heights South

Washington Heights South runs 76% clean across 211 tracked restaurants — 140 clean, 14 mid, 30 cooked.

Against the 211 spots Cooked tracks in Washington Heights South, this one comes out cleaner than 28% 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 June 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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