Hug Tea is currently listed as closed by NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), as of its inspection on October 31, 2018. A closure means inspectors found conditions serious enough to stop service — it is not the same as a restaurant choosing to shut down, and the listing can change once the problems are fixed and re-inspected.
Nothing was written up at the most recent inspection on October 31, 2018. A clean sheet like this is the best possible result — no violations of any severity were recorded.
Hug Tea has 3 inspections on record going back to October 9, 2018, averaging 35 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 14, 2018 | closed by the city | 36 pts |
| October 31, 2018 | Grade A | 0 pts |
| October 9, 2018 | no grade issued ⏳ | 68 pts |
Sunset Park East runs 73% clean across 361 tracked restaurants — 238 clean, 35 mid, 53 cooked.
Against the 361 spots Cooked tracks in Sunset Park East, this one comes out cleaner than 0% of them.
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 31, 2018. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.