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Empire Chinese
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJune 27, 2025
- address2702 Avenue U, Brooklyn 11229
- cuisineChinese
- phone7183003083
Is Empire Chinese clean?
Empire Chinese is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on June 27, 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 Empire Chinese?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 27, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🪰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.
- ⚠️Contract with a pest management professional not in place. Record of extermination activities not kept on premises.Contract with a pest management professional not in place. Record of extermination activities not kept on premises.
- 🪳roaches are dining toocriticalLive roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeNon-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.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
When was Empire Chinese last inspected?
Empire Chinese has 5 inspections on record going back to April 27, 2023, averaging 22 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 27, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| February 7, 2025 | Grade C | 4 pts |
| February 4, 2025 | closed by the city | 36 pts |
| October 8, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 49 pts |
| April 27, 2023 | Grade A | 8 pts |
Empire Chinese vs Madison
Madison runs 72% clean across 77 tracked restaurants — 51 clean, 10 mid, 10 cooked.
Against the 77 spots Cooked tracks in Madison, this one comes out cleaner than 28% of them.
Other spots in Madison
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 June 27, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.