Elegante Restaurant & Pizzeria

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score9 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 16, 2025 →
• address92-01 Rockaway Beach Boulevard, Queens 11693
• cuisinePizza
• phone7182869304

Is Elegante Restaurant & Pizzeria clean?

Elegante Restaurant & Pizzeria is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 16, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Elegante Restaurant & Pizzeria?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 16, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️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.
• 🧻grimy wiping clothscritical
  Wiping cloths not stored clean and dry, or in a sanitizing solution, between uses.

When was Elegante Restaurant & Pizzeria last inspected?

Elegante Restaurant & Pizzeria has 4 inspections on record going back to September 13, 2023, averaging 11 points.

Elegante Restaurant & Pizzeria vs Hammels-Arverne-Edgemere

Hammels-Arverne-Edgemere runs 90% clean across 48 tracked restaurants — 38 clean, 1 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 48 spots Cooked tracks in Hammels-Arverne-Edgemere, this one comes out cleaner than 50% 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 16, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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