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Island Roots Juice Bar & Cafe
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJune 12, 2025
- address361 East 52 Street, Brooklyn 11203
- cuisineJuice, Smoothies, Fruit Salads
- phone3472527953
Is Island Roots Juice Bar & Cafe clean?
Island Roots Juice Bar & Cafe is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on June 12, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Island Roots Juice Bar & Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 12, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🪰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.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
When was Island Roots Juice Bar & Cafe last inspected?
Island Roots Juice Bar & Cafe has 2 inspections on record going back to November 9, 2023, averaging 9 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 12, 2025 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| November 9, 2023 | Grade A | 6 pts |
Island Roots Juice Bar & Cafe vs Rugby-Remsen Village
Rugby-Remsen Village runs 84% clean across 78 tracked restaurants — 61 clean, 3 mid, 9 cooked.
Against the 78 spots Cooked tracks in Rugby-Remsen Village, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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 June 12, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.