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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 pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🍽️dishwashing setup offSingle 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 toocriticalLive 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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 1, 2025 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| September 6, 2023 | Grade A | 6 pts |
| August 16, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 33 pts |
Carvel vs Kensington-Ocean Parkway
Kensington-Ocean Parkway runs 78% clean across 64 tracked restaurants — 40 clean, 3 mid, 8 cooked.
Against the 64 spots Cooked tracks in Kensington-Ocean Parkway, this one comes out cleaner than 49% 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 August 1, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.