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Elegante Pastry Shop
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score11 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedDecember 19, 2025
- address165 Avenue U, Brooklyn 11223
- cuisineBakery Products/Desserts
- phone7183737008
Is Elegante Pastry Shop clean?
Elegante Pastry Shop is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on December 19, 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 Elegante Pastry Shop?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🐭they've got roommates (mice)criticalEvidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🪰flies in the housecriticalFilth 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.
When was Elegante Pastry Shop last inspected?
Elegante Pastry Shop has 3 inspections on record going back to August 21, 2023, averaging 9 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 19, 2025 | Grade A | 11 pts |
| August 29, 2024 | Grade A | 8 pts |
| August 21, 2023 | Grade A | 9 pts |
Elegante Pastry Shop 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 40% 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 December 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.