Dominican Food

• gradeGrade C ⏳
• inspection score34 pts
• critical violations5
• last inspectedNovember 18, 2024
• address2180 Forest Avenue, Staten Island 10303
• cuisineLatin American
• phone7184424616

Is Dominican Food clean?

Dominican Food is currently Grade C ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on November 18, 2024. Inspectors wrote up 5 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳. 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 Dominican Food?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 18, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍽️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.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• 🧫equipment / surface issue
  Wash hands sign not posted near or above hand washing sink.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  After cooking or removal from hot holding, TCS food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal temperature is reduced from 140 °F to 70 °F or less within 2 hours, and from 70 °F to 41 °F or less within 4 additional hours.
• 🪰flies in the housecritical
  Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage associated with (FRSA) flies or other nuisance pests in establishment’s food and/or non-food areas. FRSA flies include house flies, blow flies, bottle flies, flesh flies, drain flies, Phorid flies and fruit flies.
• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.

When was Dominican Food last inspected?

Dominican Food has 5 inspections on record going back to August 15, 2023, averaging 29 points.

Dominican Food vs Mariner's Harbor-Arlington-Port Ivory-Graniteville

Mariner's Harbor-Arlington-Port Ivory-Graniteville runs 62% clean across 51 tracked restaurants — 28 clean, 2 mid, 15 cooked.

Against the 51 spots Cooked tracks in Mariner's Harbor-Arlington-Port Ivory-Graniteville, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 November 18, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.