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Excellent Taste
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedOctober 30, 2025
- address4356 White Plains Road, Bronx 10466
- cuisineChinese
- phone7186549774
Is Excellent Taste clean?
Excellent Taste is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 30, 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 Excellent Taste?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 30, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🔪cross-contamination riskcriticalRaw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
- 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcriticalFood, supplies, or equipment not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display, service or from customer’s refillable, reusable container. Condiments not in single-service containers or dispensed directly by the vendor.
When was Excellent Taste last inspected?
Excellent Taste has 4 inspections on record going back to December 6, 2022, averaging 13 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 30, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| August 20, 2024 | Grade B | 16 pts |
| April 30, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 7 pts |
| December 6, 2022 | Grade B | 17 pts |
Excellent Taste vs Woodlawn-Wakefield
Woodlawn-Wakefield runs 76% clean across 76 tracked restaurants — 55 clean, 5 mid, 12 cooked.
Against the 76 spots Cooked tracks in Woodlawn-Wakefield, this one comes out cleaner than 25% of them.
Other spots in Woodlawn-Wakefield
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 October 30, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.