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Cafe 52
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJanuary 6, 2025
- address51-29 43 Avenue, Queens 11377
- cuisineAmerican
- phone7184240250
Is Cafe 52 clean?
Cafe 52 is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on January 6, 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 Cafe 52?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 6, 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.
- 🧫food contact surfaces dirtyDesign, construction, materials used or maintenance of food contact surface improper. Surface not easily cleanable, sanitized and maintained.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
When was Cafe 52 last inspected?
Cafe 52 has 6 inspections on record going back to January 31, 2022, averaging 31 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 6, 2025 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| January 19, 2024 | Grade B | 23 pts |
| June 14, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 53 pts |
| February 13, 2023 | Grade C | 33 pts |
| December 20, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 42 pts |
| January 31, 2022 | Grade B | 23 pts |
Cafe 52 vs Hunters Point-Sunnyside-West Maspeth
Hunters Point-Sunnyside-West Maspeth runs 76% clean across 540 tracked restaurants — 359 clean, 31 mid, 81 cooked.
Against the 540 spots Cooked tracks in Hunters Point-Sunnyside-West Maspeth, this one comes out cleaner than 45% 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 January 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.