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Garlic Pizza Bar
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 7, 2025
- address629 2 Avenue, Manhattan 10016
- cuisinePizza
- phone6465599500
Is Garlic Pizza Bar clean?
Garlic Pizza Bar is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on April 7, 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 Garlic Pizza Bar?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 7, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍲hot food sitting too coolcriticalHot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
- 🚿plumbing acting upAnti-siphonage or back-flow prevention device not provided where required; equipment or floor not properly drained; sewage disposal system in disrepair or not functioning properly. Condensation or liquid waste improperly disposed of.
When was Garlic Pizza Bar last inspected?
Garlic Pizza Bar has 4 inspections on record going back to June 7, 2022, averaging 29 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 7, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| July 25, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 61 pts |
| January 12, 2023 | Grade B | 24 pts |
| June 7, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 16 pts |
Garlic Pizza Bar vs Murray Hill-Kips Bay
Murray Hill-Kips Bay runs 79% clean across 372 tracked restaurants — 271 clean, 23 mid, 48 cooked.
Against the 372 spots Cooked tracks in Murray Hill-Kips Bay, this one comes out cleaner than 28% 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 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.