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Foundation Restaurant & Lounge
- gradeGrade pending
- inspection score20 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedSeptember 10, 2025
- address1254 Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn 11226
- cuisineAmerican
- phone3472403595
Is Foundation Restaurant & Lounge clean?
New York currently lists Foundation Restaurant & Lounge as grade pending, following an inspection on September 10, 2025 that scored 20 points. The city has not posted a letter yet, and it will not until a re-inspection settles it. The last grade it ever posted here was C on October 25, 2024.
What did inspectors find at Foundation Restaurant & Lounge?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 10, 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.
- 🍽️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.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🗑️garbage situation out of pocketPesticide not properly labeled or used by unlicensed individual. Pesticide, other toxic chemical improperly used/stored. Unprotected, unlocked bait station used.
When was Foundation Restaurant & Lounge last inspected?
Foundation Restaurant & Lounge has 5 inspections on record going back to October 4, 2024, averaging 42 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 10, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 20 pts |
| March 19, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 5 pts |
| March 3, 2025 | closed by the city | 76 pts |
| October 25, 2024 | Grade C | 60 pts |
| October 4, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 50 pts |
Foundation Restaurant & Lounge vs Flatbush
Flatbush runs 77% clean across 225 tracked restaurants — 151 clean, 7 mid, 37 cooked.
Against the 225 spots Cooked tracks in Flatbush, this one comes out cleaner than 8% 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 September 10, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.