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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 sanitizedcriticalFood contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
- 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcriticalFood, 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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 3, 2025 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| February 20, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| October 8, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 18 pts |
| April 6, 2023 | Grade A | 12 pts |
Blue Mountain Heights Cafe & Bar vs Washington Heights South
Washington Heights South runs 75% clean across 208 tracked restaurants — 137 clean, 12 mid, 33 cooked.
Against the 208 spots Cooked tracks in Washington Heights South, this one comes out cleaner than 30% 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 June 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.