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Gong Cha
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedAugust 22, 2025
- address1698 East 14 Street, Brooklyn 11229
- cuisineCoffee/Tea
- phone6466831590
Is Gong Cha clean?
Gong Cha is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on August 22, 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 Gong Cha?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcriticalFood contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
- 🍽️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.
- ⚠️Contract with a pest management professional not in place. Record of extermination activities not kept on premises.Contract with a pest management professional not in place. Record of extermination activities not kept on premises.
- ⚠️Failure to post or conspicuously post healthy eating informationFailure to post or conspicuously post healthy eating information
When was Gong Cha last inspected?
Gong Cha has 4 inspections on record going back to November 3, 2023, averaging 18 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 22, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| December 9, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 20 pts |
| April 25, 2024 | Grade A | 10 pts |
| November 3, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 29 pts |
Gong Cha vs Homecrest
Homecrest runs 74% clean across 134 tracked restaurants — 91 clean, 13 mid, 19 cooked.
Against the 134 spots Cooked tracks in Homecrest, this one comes out cleaner than 26% 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 August 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.