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Ecowas Kitchen (Amala Junction)
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score11 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedAugust 26, 2025
- address1039 Belmont Avenue, Brooklyn 11208
- cuisineAfrican
- phone7182771881
Is Ecowas Kitchen (Amala Junction) clean?
Ecowas Kitchen (Amala Junction) is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on August 26, 2025. 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 Ecowas Kitchen (Amala Junction)?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 26, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🪰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.
- 🕳️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.
When was Ecowas Kitchen (Amala Junction) last inspected?
Ecowas Kitchen (Amala Junction) has 4 inspections on record going back to April 3, 2023, averaging 29 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 26, 2025 | Grade A | 11 pts |
| April 10, 2025 | Grade C | 35 pts |
| December 11, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 56 pts |
| April 3, 2023 | Grade A | 13 pts |
Ecowas Kitchen (Amala Junction) vs East New York
East New York runs 86% clean across 142 tracked restaurants — 110 clean, 7 mid, 11 cooked.
Against the 142 spots Cooked tracks in East New York, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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 26, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.