Cafe Valdez

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score26 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedOctober 8, 2025
• address40-15 Junction Boulevard, Queens 11368
• cuisineLatin American
• phone7188694236

Is Cafe Valdez clean?

Cafe Valdez is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 8, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Cafe Valdez?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 8, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍴utensils stored sketchycritical
  Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
• 🧫equipment / surface issue
  Wash hands sign not posted near or above hand washing sink.
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
• ⚠️Current letter grade or Grade Pending card not posted
  Current letter grade or Grade Pending card not posted
• 🍽️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.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Non-food contact surface or equipment made of unacceptable material, not kept clean, or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit.

When was Cafe Valdez last inspected?

Cafe Valdez has 6 inspections on record going back to March 16, 2023, averaging 38 points.

Cafe Valdez vs North Corona

North Corona runs 73% clean across 194 tracked restaurants — 126 clean, 25 mid, 21 cooked.

Against the 194 spots Cooked tracks in North Corona, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 8, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.