Blue Stripes

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score13 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedDecember 10, 2025
• address28 East 13 Street, Manhattan 10003
• cuisineCoffee/Tea
• phone9172658737

Is Blue Stripes clean?

Blue Stripes is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on December 10, 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 Blue Stripes?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 10, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧫food contact surfaces dirty
  Design, construction, materials used or maintenance of food contact surface improper. Surface not easily cleanable, sanitized and maintained.
• 🛠️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.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.

When was Blue Stripes last inspected?

Blue Stripes has 4 inspections on record going back to February 15, 2023, averaging 18 points.

Blue Stripes vs West Village

West Village runs 81% clean across 1,012 tracked restaurants — 722 clean, 48 mid, 117 cooked.

Against the 1,012 spots Cooked tracks in West Village, 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 December 10, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.