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Dosa Royale
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score25 pts
- critical violations5
- last inspectedOctober 17, 2025
- address258 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn 11205
- cuisineIndian
- phone7185763800
Is Dosa Royale clean?
Dosa Royale is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 17, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 5 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Dosa Royale?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🐀rats have moved incriticalEvidence of rats or live rats in establishment's food or non-food areas.
- 🍽️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.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🪳roaches are dining toocriticalLive roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
- 🪰flies in the housecriticalFilth 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.
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcriticalAfter 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.
When was Dosa Royale last inspected?
Dosa Royale has 6 inspections on record going back to December 20, 2023, averaging 36 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 17, 2025 | Grade B | 25 pts |
| March 31, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 32 pts |
| August 21, 2024 | Grade C | 3 pts |
| August 20, 2024 | closed by the city | 12 pts |
| August 16, 2024 | closed by the city | 108 pts |
| December 20, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 37 pts |
Dosa Royale vs Clinton Hill
Clinton Hill runs 80% clean across 146 tracked restaurants — 105 clean, 11 mid, 15 cooked.
Against the 146 spots Cooked tracks in Clinton Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 October 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.