Famous

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 28, 2025 →
• address253 Avenue X, Brooklyn 11223
• cuisineChinese/Cuban
• phone7183398899

Is Famous clean?

Famous is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on August 28, 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 Famous?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 28, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🧫equipment / surface issue
  Swollen, leaking, rusted or otherwise damaged canned food to be returned to distributor not segregated from intact product and clearly labeled DO NOT USE
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.

When was Famous last inspected?

Famous has 3 inspections on record going back to June 21, 2023, averaging 11 points.

Famous vs Gravesend

Gravesend runs 76% clean across 36 tracked restaurants — 26 clean, 0 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 36 spots Cooked tracks in Gravesend, this one comes out cleaner than 56% of them.

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• C China 1
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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.

Read the New York ratings guide →

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 August 28, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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