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 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.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live 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.

Ecowas Kitchen (Amala Junction) vs East New York

East New York runs 83% clean across 148 tracked restaurants — 111 clean, 8 mid, 15 cooked.

Against the 148 spots Cooked tracks in East New York, this one comes out cleaner than 40% 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 August 26, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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