El Nuevo Azteca Maya

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedOctober 23, 2025 →
• address351 Ridgewood Avenue, Brooklyn 11208
• cuisineLatin American
• phone7182350205

Is El Nuevo Azteca Maya clean?

El Nuevo Azteca Maya is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 23, 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 Nuevo Azteca Maya?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧼staff skipping handwashingcritical
  Personal cleanliness is inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn where required. Jewelry worn on hands or arms. Fingernail polish worn or fingernails not kept clean and trimmed.
• 🍴utensils stored sketchycritical
  Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Non-food contact surface or equipment made of unacceptable material, not kept clean, or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit.

When was El Nuevo Azteca Maya last inspected?

El Nuevo Azteca Maya has 7 inspections on record going back to May 15, 2023, averaging 23 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

El Nuevo Azteca Maya vs Cypress Hills-City Line

Cypress Hills-City Line runs 79% clean across 95 tracked restaurants — 64 clean, 2 mid, 15 cooked.

Against the 95 spots Cooked tracks in Cypress Hills-City Line, this one comes out cleaner than 25% 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 October 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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