Elegant Chinese Restaurant

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score27 pts
• critical violations4
• last inspectedOctober 8, 2025
• address212-06 Hillside Avenue, Queens 11427
• cuisineChinese
• phone7187768270

Is Elegant Chinese Restaurant clean?

Elegant Chinese Restaurant is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 8, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Elegant Chinese Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 8, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️facility / equipment issue
  Dishwashing and ware washing: Cleaning and sanitizing of tableware, including dishes, utensils, and equipment deficient.
• 📋no certified food supervisor on dutycritical
  Food Protection Certificate (FPC) not held by manager or supervisor of food operations.
• 🪰flies in the housecritical
  Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage associated with (FRSA) flies or other nuisance pests in establishment’s food and/or non-food areas. FRSA flies include house flies, blow flies, bottle flies, flesh flies, drain flies, Phorid flies and fruit flies.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.

When was Elegant Chinese Restaurant last inspected?

Elegant Chinese Restaurant has 5 inspections on record going back to March 16, 2023, averaging 19 points.

Elegant Chinese Restaurant vs Queens Village

Queens Village runs 76% clean across 77 tracked restaurants — 54 clean, 5 mid, 12 cooked.

Against the 77 spots Cooked tracks in Queens Village, this one comes out cleaner than 6% 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 October 8, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.