Bonafide Cafe & Deli

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedApril 4, 2025
• address118 Kane Street, Brooklyn 11231
• cuisineSandwiches
• phone5164676286

Is Bonafide Cafe & Deli clean?

Bonafide Cafe & Deli is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on April 4, 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 Bonafide Cafe & Deli?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 4, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• 🗑️garbage situation out of pocket
  Pesticide not properly labeled or used by unlicensed individual. Pesticide, other toxic chemical improperly used/stored. Unprotected, unlocked bait station used.

When was Bonafide Cafe & Deli last inspected?

Bonafide Cafe & Deli has 3 inspections on record going back to April 12, 2023, averaging 14 points.

Bonafide Cafe & Deli vs Carroll Gardens-Columbia Street-Red Hook

Carroll Gardens-Columbia Street-Red Hook runs 87% clean across 225 tracked restaurants — 163 clean, 2 mid, 23 cooked.

Against the 225 spots Cooked tracks in Carroll Gardens-Columbia Street-Red Hook, this one comes out cleaner than 38% 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 April 4, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.