Brain Food The Smart Kitchen

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMarch 6, 2025 →
• address111 Court Street, Brooklyn 11201
• cuisineAmerican
• phone9176456213

Is Brain Food The Smart Kitchen clean?

Brain Food The Smart Kitchen is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on March 6, 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 Brain Food The Smart Kitchen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧻grimy wiping clothscritical
  Wiping cloths not stored clean and dry, or in a sanitizing solution, between uses.
• 🚿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.
• 🧽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.

When was Brain Food The Smart Kitchen last inspected?

Brain Food The Smart Kitchen has 5 inspections on record going back to October 25, 2022, averaging 28 points.

Brain Food The Smart Kitchen vs Brooklyn Heights-Cobble Hill

Brooklyn Heights-Cobble Hill runs 81% clean across 136 tracked restaurants — 101 clean, 8 mid, 16 cooked.

Against the 136 spots Cooked tracks in Brooklyn Heights-Cobble Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 23% 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 March 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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