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El Cangrejal Restaurant
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score26 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedJanuary 28, 2025
- address100-11 37 Avenue, Queens 11368
- cuisineLatin American
- phone7186512425
Is El Cangrejal Restaurant clean?
El Cangrejal Restaurant is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on January 28, 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 El Cangrejal Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 28, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🍽️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.
- 🚿plumbing acting upAnti-siphonage or back-flow prevention device not provided where required; equipment or floor not properly drained; sewage disposal system in disrepair or not functioning properly. Condensation or liquid waste improperly disposed of.
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcriticalShellfish not from approved source, not or improperly tagged/labeled; tags not retained for 90 days.
- 🪳roaches are dining toocriticalLive roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
When was El Cangrejal Restaurant last inspected?
El Cangrejal Restaurant has 5 inspections on record going back to June 23, 2022, averaging 33 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 28, 2025 | Grade B | 26 pts |
| November 7, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 68 pts |
| August 25, 2023 | Grade B | 18 pts |
| May 23, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 35 pts |
| June 23, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 19 pts |
El Cangrejal Restaurant vs North Corona
North Corona runs 73% clean across 194 tracked restaurants — 126 clean, 25 mid, 21 cooked.
Against the 194 spots Cooked tracks in North Corona, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 January 28, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.