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Dim Sum Palace
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score18 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedAugust 25, 2025
- address59 2 Avenue, Manhattan 10003
- cuisineChinese
- phone6464768846
Is Dim Sum Palace clean?
Dim Sum Palace is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on August 25, 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 Dim Sum Palace?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 25, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍽️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.
- 🪳roaches are dining toocriticalLive roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
- 🧽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 Dim Sum Palace last inspected?
Dim Sum Palace has 5 inspections on record going back to December 1, 2022, averaging 27 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 25, 2025 | Grade B | 18 pts |
| April 8, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 21 pts |
| August 22, 2024 | Grade B | 27 pts |
| January 3, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 56 pts |
| December 1, 2022 | Grade A | 13 pts |
Dim Sum Palace vs East Village
East Village runs 77% clean across 732 tracked restaurants — 477 clean, 41 mid, 105 cooked.
Against the 732 spots Cooked tracks in East Village, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 25, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.