Empire Szechuan Garden

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedSeptember 9, 2025 →
• address43-42 46 Street, Queens 11104
• cuisineChinese
• phone7183619625

Is Empire Szechuan Garden clean?

Empire Szechuan Garden is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 9, 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 Szechuan Garden?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 9, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧤food-handling slipcritical
  Tobacco or electronic cigarette use, eating, or drinking from open container in food preparation, food storage or dishwashing area.
• 🍴utensils stored sketchycritical
  Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
• 🛠️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.

When was Empire Szechuan Garden last inspected?

Empire Szechuan Garden has 4 inspections on record going back to January 9, 2023, averaging 18 points.

Empire Szechuan Garden vs Hunters Point-Sunnyside-West Maspeth

Hunters Point-Sunnyside-West Maspeth runs 77% clean across 556 tracked restaurants — 364 clean, 32 mid, 78 cooked.

Against the 556 spots Cooked tracks in Hunters Point-Sunnyside-West Maspeth, this one comes out cleaner than 30% 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 September 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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