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El Lider Restaurant
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJanuary 29, 2025
- address4535 Park Avenue, Bronx 10457
- cuisineLatin American
- phone7182202923
Is El Lider Restaurant clean?
El Lider Restaurant is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on January 29, 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 El Lider Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 29, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🔪cross-contamination riskcriticalRaw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
- 🐛pest / contamination issuecriticalProperly scaled and calibrated thermometer or thermocouple not provided or not readily accessible in food preparation and hot/cold holding areas to measure temperatures of TCS foods during cooking, cooling, reheating, and holding.
When was El Lider Restaurant last inspected?
El Lider Restaurant has 6 inspections on record going back to April 21, 2022, averaging 13 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 29, 2025 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| May 21, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 39 pts |
| November 30, 2022 | Grade A | 4 pts |
| July 26, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 9 pts |
| July 20, 2022 | closed by the city | 0 pts |
| April 21, 2022 | Grade A | 12 pts |
El Lider Restaurant vs Fordham South
Fordham South runs 76% clean across 65 tracked restaurants — 45 clean, 4 mid, 10 cooked.
Against the 65 spots Cooked tracks in Fordham South, this one comes out cleaner than 34% 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.