Cooked?
Highway Bagels
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score11 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedNovember 3, 2025
- address1921 Kings Highway, Brooklyn 11229
- cuisineBagels/Pretzels
- phone7183369200
Is Highway Bagels clean?
Highway Bagels is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on November 3, 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 Highway Bagels?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 3, 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.
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeNon-food contact surface or equipment made of unacceptable material, not kept clean, or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit.
- 🪰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.
- 🐭they've got roommates (mice)criticalEvidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
When was Highway Bagels last inspected?
Highway Bagels has 7 inspections on record going back to April 4, 2023, averaging 15 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 3, 2025 | Grade A | 11 pts |
| August 29, 2024 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| April 18, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 20 pts |
| September 15, 2023 | Grade A | 10 pts |
| September 1, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 5 pts |
| April 27, 2023 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| April 4, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 33 pts |
Highway Bagels vs Madison
Madison runs 72% clean across 77 tracked restaurants — 51 clean, 10 mid, 10 cooked.
Against the 77 spots Cooked tracks in Madison, this one comes out cleaner than 45% of them.
Other spots in Madison
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 November 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.