C & J Cafe No 1

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score24 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedOctober 22, 2025
• address817 Utica Avenue, Brooklyn 11203
• cuisineCaribbean
• phone3472408463

Is C & J Cafe No 1 clean?

C & J Cafe No 1 is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 22, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at C & J Cafe No 1?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🧫equipment / surface issue
  Thawing procedure improper.
• 🪰flies in the housecritical
  Filth 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.

When was C & J Cafe No 1 last inspected?

C & J Cafe No 1 has 4 inspections on record going back to November 16, 2022, averaging 19 points.

C & J Cafe No 1 vs Rugby-Remsen Village

Rugby-Remsen Village runs 84% clean across 78 tracked restaurants — 61 clean, 3 mid, 9 cooked.

Against the 78 spots Cooked tracks in Rugby-Remsen Village, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 October 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.