Italian Lovers Pizza

• gradeGrade A ⏳
• grade postedJanuary 10, 2025
• inspection score27 pts
• critical violations4
• last inspectedAugust 24, 2026 →
• address99 Featherbed Lane, Bronx 10452
• cuisinePizza
• phone7186841046

Is Italian Lovers Pizza clean?

Italian Lovers Pizza currently carries Grade A ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). It was posted on January 10, 2025 and still stands. The place has been inspected again since — on August 24, 2026 scoring 27 points — but NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has not ruled on that visit, so no new grade has been issued. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder the posted grade reads clean 😇; the numbers above come from the newer visit.

What did inspectors find at Italian Lovers Pizza?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 24, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
• ⚠️Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) single service article not designated as a recyclable material.
• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical
  Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.

When was Italian Lovers Pizza last inspected?

Italian Lovers Pizza has 4 inspections on record going back to February 8, 2024, averaging 23 points.

Italian Lovers Pizza vs University Heights-Morris Heights

University Heights-Morris Heights runs 75% clean across 70 tracked restaurants — 43 clean, 4 mid, 10 cooked.

Against the 70 spots Cooked tracks in University Heights-Morris Heights, this one comes out cleaner than 28% 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.

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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily; publication can lag behind an inspection. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.

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 August 24, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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