Dante's Pizza

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedOctober 5, 2026 →
• address105-03 Metropolitan Avenue, Queens 11375
• cuisinePizza
• phone7185440416

Is Dante's Pizza clean?

Dante's Pizza is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 5, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Dante's Pizza?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 5, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧫food contact surfaces dirty
  Design, construction, materials used or maintenance of food contact surface improper. Surface not easily cleanable, sanitized and maintained.
• 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcritical
  Food, 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 not properly sanitizedcritical
  Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

When was Dante's Pizza last inspected?

Dante's Pizza has 5 inspections on record going back to March 14, 2022, averaging 16 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Dante's Pizza vs Forest Hills

Forest Hills runs 77% clean across 253 tracked restaurants — 176 clean, 16 mid, 37 cooked.

Against the 253 spots Cooked tracks in Forest Hills, this one comes out cleaner than 28% 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 October 5, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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