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Crab Shack Seafood Boil
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score27 pts
- critical violations4
- last inspectedFebruary 6, 2025
- address55-25 Myrtle Avenue, Queens 11385
- cuisineSeafood
- phone3476899949
Is Crab Shack Seafood Boil clean?
Crab Shack Seafood Boil is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on February 6, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Crab Shack Seafood Boil?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcriticalShellfish not from approved source, not or improperly tagged/labeled; tags not retained for 90 days.
- 🔪cross-contamination riskcriticalRaw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
- 🌡️food-temperature slipcriticalHot TCS food item that has been cooked and cooled is being held for service without first being reheated to 165º F or above within 2 hours.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcriticalFood contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
When was Crab Shack Seafood Boil last inspected?
Crab Shack Seafood Boil has 4 inspections on record going back to July 13, 2023, averaging 28 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| February 6, 2025 | Grade B | 27 pts |
| October 28, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 52 pts |
| July 27, 2023 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| July 13, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 21 pts |
Crab Shack Seafood Boil vs Ridgewood
Ridgewood runs 78% clean across 286 tracked restaurants — 201 clean, 30 mid, 27 cooked.
Against the 286 spots Cooked tracks in Ridgewood, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 February 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.