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Chicken Festival
- gradeGrade A ⏳
- inspection score11 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJanuary 28, 2025
- address29-19 Ditmars Boulevard, Queens 11105
- cuisinePeruvian
- phone7187289696
Is Chicken Festival clean?
Chicken Festival is currently Grade A ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on January 28, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇. There is a newer inspection the city has not ruled on yet, so the posted grade still stands for now.
What did inspectors find at Chicken Festival?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 28, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🐭they've got roommates (mice)criticalEvidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🪳roaches are dining toocriticalLive roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
When was Chicken Festival last inspected?
Chicken Festival has 3 inspections on record going back to May 29, 2024, averaging 20 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 27, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 27 pts |
| January 28, 2025 | Grade A | 11 pts |
| May 29, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 21 pts |
Chicken Festival vs Steinway
Steinway runs 82% clean across 184 tracked restaurants — 135 clean, 16 mid, 14 cooked.
Against the 184 spots Cooked tracks in Steinway, this one comes out cleaner than 44% 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 January 28, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.