Carvel

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 1, 2025 →
• address203 Church Avenue, Brooklyn 11218
• cuisineFrozen Desserts
• phone7184389501

Is Carvel clean?

Carvel is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on August 1, 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 Carvel?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 1, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🍽️dishwashing setup off
  Single service article not provided. Single service article reused or not protected from contamination when transported, stored, dispensed. Drinking straws not completely enclosed in wrapper or dispensed from a sanitary device.
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.

When was Carvel last inspected?

Carvel has 3 inspections on record going back to August 16, 2023, averaging 17 points.

Carvel vs Kensington-Ocean Parkway

Kensington-Ocean Parkway runs 77% clean across 66 tracked restaurants — 40 clean, 2 mid, 10 cooked.

Against the 66 spots Cooked tracks in Kensington-Ocean Parkway, this one comes out cleaner than 54% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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 August 1, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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