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El Rancho Restaurant
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMarch 13, 2025
- address1157 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn 11226
- cuisineSpanish
- phone3476279030
Is El Rancho Restaurant clean?
El Rancho Restaurant is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on March 13, 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 Rancho Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 13, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍲hot food sitting too coolcriticalHot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
- 🌡️food-temperature slipcriticalHot TCS food item that has been cooked and cooled is being held for service without first being reheated to 165º F or above within 2 hours.
When was El Rancho Restaurant last inspected?
El Rancho Restaurant has 5 inspections on record going back to June 9, 2022, averaging 19 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 13, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| August 22, 2024 | Grade C | 40 pts |
| January 4, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 32 pts |
| November 29, 2022 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| June 9, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
El Rancho Restaurant vs Erasmus
Erasmus runs 75% clean across 96 tracked restaurants — 65 clean, 3 mid, 19 cooked.
Against the 96 spots Cooked tracks in Erasmus, 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.
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 March 13, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.