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Hometown Café
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedDecember 8, 2025
- address2117 86 Street, Brooklyn 11214
- cuisineAsian/Asian Fusion
- phone3474719632
Is Hometown Café clean?
Hometown Café is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on December 8, 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 Hometown Café?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 8, 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.
- 🍽️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.
When was Hometown Café last inspected?
Hometown Café has 1 inspection on record going back to December 8, 2025, averaging 12 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 8, 2025 | Grade A | 12 pts |
Hometown Café vs Bensonhurst West
Bensonhurst West runs 80% clean across 248 tracked restaurants — 184 clean, 19 mid, 28 cooked.
Against the 248 spots Cooked tracks in Bensonhurst West, this one comes out cleaner than 23% 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 December 8, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.