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Cuenca Coffee Shop Restaurant
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score25 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedDecember 31, 2025
- address95-29 Jamaica Avenue, Queens 11421
- cuisineLatin American
- phone7188474642
Is Cuenca Coffee Shop Restaurant clean?
Cuenca Coffee Shop Restaurant is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on December 31, 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 Cuenca Coffee Shop Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 31, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧼staff skipping handwashingcriticalPersonal cleanliness is inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn where required. Jewelry worn on hands or arms. Fingernail polish worn or fingernails not kept clean and trimmed.
- 🍲hot food sitting too coolcriticalHot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
- 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcriticalFood, 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.
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeNon-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 Cuenca Coffee Shop Restaurant last inspected?
Cuenca Coffee Shop Restaurant has 7 inspections on record going back to January 12, 2023, averaging 30 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2025 | Grade B | 25 pts |
| November 15, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 34 pts |
| July 24, 2025 | Grade C | 51 pts |
| May 19, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 23 pts |
| December 26, 2023 | Grade B | 19 pts |
| October 3, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 37 pts |
| January 12, 2023 | Grade B | 22 pts |
Cuenca Coffee Shop Restaurant vs Woodhaven
Woodhaven runs 77% clean across 111 tracked restaurants — 78 clean, 8 mid, 15 cooked.
Against the 111 spots Cooked tracks in Woodhaven, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 December 31, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.