Cafe Rendez Vous is currently Grade C from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 26, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Cafe Rendez Vous?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 26, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
🚿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.
📋no certified food supervisor on dutycritical
Food Protection Certificate (FPC) not held by manager or supervisor of food operations.
🪳roaches are dining toocritical
Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
🧽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.
🕳️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.
⚠️Contract with a pest management professional not in place. Record of extermination activities not kept on premises.
Contract with a pest management professional not in place. Record of extermination activities not kept on premises.
When was Cafe Rendez Vous last inspected?
Cafe Rendez Vous has 2 inspections on record going back to June 9, 2025, averaging 32 points.
date
result
score
September 26, 2025
Grade C
31 pts
June 9, 2025
no grade issued ⏳
33 pts
Cafe Rendez Vous vs Bay Ridge
Bay Ridge runs 79% clean across 364 tracked restaurants — 249 clean, 18 mid, 47 cooked.
Against the 364 spots Cooked tracks in Bay Ridge, this one comes out cleaner than 4% of them.
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 September 26, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.