Island Crave

• gradeGrade C ⏳
• inspection score45 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedMarch 31, 2025
• address1 West 137 Street, Manhattan 10037
• cuisineCaribbean
• phone3474539927

Is Island Crave clean?

Island Crave is currently Grade C ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on March 31, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳. There is a newer inspection the city has not ruled on yet, so the posted grade still stands for now.

What did inspectors find at Island Crave?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 31, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcritical
  Food, 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.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• 🧫food contact surfaces dirty
  Design, construction, materials used or maintenance of food contact surface improper. Surface not easily cleanable, sanitized and maintained.
• 🚰facility hygiene issuecritical
  No approved written standard operating procedure for avoiding contamination by refillable returnable containers.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.

When was Island Crave last inspected?

Island Crave has 4 inspections on record going back to February 13, 2025, averaging 26 points.

Island Crave vs Central Harlem North-Polo Grounds

Central Harlem North-Polo Grounds runs 71% clean across 91 tracked restaurants — 60 clean, 5 mid, 19 cooked.

Against the 91 spots Cooked tracks in Central Harlem North-Polo Grounds, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 March 31, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.