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El Cerrito Del Carmen
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJanuary 29, 2025
- address2024 Mcdonald Avenue, Brooklyn 11223
- cuisineLatin American
- phone7183397907
Is El Cerrito Del Carmen clean?
El Cerrito Del Carmen is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on January 29, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Cerrito Del Carmen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 29, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcriticalShellfish not from approved source, not or improperly tagged/labeled; tags not retained for 90 days.
- ⚠️Contract with a pest management professional not in place. Record of extermination activities not kept on premises.Contract with a pest management professional not in place. Record of extermination activities not kept on premises.
When was El Cerrito Del Carmen last inspected?
El Cerrito Del Carmen has 4 inspections on record going back to July 14, 2022, averaging 22 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 29, 2025 | Grade A | 10 pts |
| May 6, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 64 pts |
| November 14, 2022 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| July 14, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
El Cerrito Del Carmen vs Bensonhurst East
Bensonhurst East runs 82% clean across 139 tracked restaurants — 99 clean, 9 mid, 13 cooked.
Against the 139 spots Cooked tracks in Bensonhurst East, this one comes out cleaner than 66% 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 29, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.