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Gourmet Garden 8
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 17, 2025
- address108 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn 11201
- cuisineChinese
- phone7182465533
Is Gourmet Garden 8 clean?
Gourmet Garden 8 is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 17, 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 Gourmet Garden 8?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🧫food contact surfaces dirtyDesign, construction, materials used or maintenance of food contact surface improper. Surface not easily cleanable, sanitized and maintained.
- 🐭they've got roommates (mice)criticalEvidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
When was Gourmet Garden 8 last inspected?
Gourmet Garden 8 has 3 inspections on record going back to November 21, 2022, averaging 15 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 17, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| May 23, 2024 | Grade A | 11 pts |
| November 21, 2022 | Grade B | 22 pts |
Gourmet Garden 8 vs Fort Greene
Fort Greene runs 76% clean across 148 tracked restaurants — 103 clean, 10 mid, 23 cooked.
Against the 148 spots Cooked tracks in Fort Greene, 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 October 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.