Cooked?
Holiday Inn Express
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedSeptember 30, 2025
- address538 West 48 Street, Manhattan 10036
- cuisineContinental
- phone2125820692
Is Holiday Inn Express clean?
Holiday Inn Express is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 30, 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 Holiday Inn Express?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 30, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧻grimy wiping clothscriticalWiping cloths not stored clean and dry, or in a sanitizing solution, between uses.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcriticalFood contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
- 🛠️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.
When was Holiday Inn Express last inspected?
Holiday Inn Express has 7 inspections on record going back to October 7, 2022, averaging 21 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 30, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| April 22, 2025 | Grade B | 15 pts |
| March 4, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 21 pts |
| May 17, 2024 | Grade C | 31 pts |
| January 12, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 26 pts |
| March 1, 2023 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| October 7, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 26 pts |
Holiday Inn Express vs Clinton
Clinton runs 76% clean across 596 tracked restaurants — 410 clean, 33 mid, 100 cooked.
Against the 596 spots Cooked tracks in Clinton, this one comes out cleaner than 24% of them.
Other spots in Clinton
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 30, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.