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Brother's Bakery Cafe
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score9 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedDecember 23, 2025
- address2155 2 Avenue, Manhattan 10029
- cuisineAmerican
- phone2126410646
Is Brother's Bakery Cafe clean?
Brother's Bakery Cafe is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on December 23, 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 Brother's Bakery Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🪰flies in the housecriticalFilth flies or food/refuse/sewage associated with (FRSA) flies or other nuisance pests in establishment’s food and/or non-food areas. FRSA flies include house flies, blow flies, bottle flies, flesh flies, drain flies, Phorid flies and fruit flies.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
When was Brother's Bakery Cafe last inspected?
Brother's Bakery Cafe has 3 inspections on record going back to April 18, 2023, averaging 10 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 23, 2025 | Grade A | 9 pts |
| July 19, 2024 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| April 18, 2023 | Grade A | 10 pts |
Brother's Bakery Cafe vs East Harlem North
East Harlem North runs 82% clean across 187 tracked restaurants — 132 clean, 8 mid, 21 cooked.
Against the 187 spots Cooked tracks in East Harlem North, this one comes out cleaner than 71% 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 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.