Essential By Christophe

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score11 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedApril 9, 2025
• address103 W 77Th St, Manhattan 10024
• cuisineFrench
• phone6464787928

Is Essential By Christophe clean?

Essential By Christophe is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on April 9, 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 Essential By Christophe?

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

• 🧫food contact surfaces dirty
  Design, construction, materials used or maintenance of food contact surface improper. Surface not easily cleanable, sanitized and maintained.
• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.

When was Essential By Christophe last inspected?

Essential By Christophe has 1 inspection on record going back to April 9, 2025, averaging 11 points.

Essential By Christophe vs Upper West Side

Upper West Side runs 81% clean across 416 tracked restaurants — 315 clean, 20 mid, 56 cooked.

Against the 416 spots Cooked tracks in Upper West Side, this one comes out cleaner than 52% 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 April 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.