Cafe Rubio Sports Bar & Restaurant

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMarch 4, 2025
• address98-05 Northern Boulevard, Queens 11368
• cuisineSpanish
• phone7185054670

Is Cafe Rubio Sports Bar & Restaurant clean?

Cafe Rubio Sports Bar & Restaurant is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on March 4, 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 Cafe Rubio Sports Bar & Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 4, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcritical
  Food, supplies, or equipment not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display, service or from customer’s refillable, reusable container. Condiments not in single-service containers or dispensed directly by the vendor.
• 🧽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.
• 🧫equipment / surface issue
  Wash hands sign not posted near or above hand washing sink.

When was Cafe Rubio Sports Bar & Restaurant last inspected?

Cafe Rubio Sports Bar & Restaurant has 2 inspections on record going back to September 26, 2023, averaging 10 points.

Cafe Rubio Sports Bar & Restaurant vs East Elmhurst

East Elmhurst runs 74% clean across 39 tracked restaurants — 26 clean, 5 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 39 spots Cooked tracks in East Elmhurst, this one comes out cleaner than 29% 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 March 4, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.