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Joe's Home Of Soup Dumplings
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedOctober 20, 2025
- address12 East 49 Street, Manhattan 10017
- cuisineChinese
- phone2123333868
Is Joe's Home Of Soup Dumplings clean?
Joe's Home Of Soup Dumplings is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 20, 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 Joe's Home Of Soup Dumplings?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 20, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍽️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.
- 🌡️fridge is giving… room tempcriticalCold TCS food item held above 41 °F; smoked or processed fish held above 38 °F; intact raw eggs held above 45 °F; or reduced oxygen packaged (ROP) TCS foods held above required temperatures except during active necessary preparation.
When was Joe's Home Of Soup Dumplings last inspected?
Joe's Home Of Soup Dumplings has 7 inspections on record going back to December 9, 2022, averaging 28 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 20, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| April 23, 2025 | Grade C | 38 pts |
| March 13, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 38 pts |
| September 20, 2023 | Grade C | 5 pts |
| September 18, 2023 | closed by the city | 21 pts |
| September 13, 2023 | closed by the city | 55 pts |
| December 9, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 28 pts |
Joe's Home Of Soup Dumplings vs Midtown-Midtown South
Midtown-Midtown South runs 84% clean across 2,257 tracked restaurants — 1,596 clean, 96 mid, 216 cooked.
Against the 2,257 spots Cooked tracks in Midtown-Midtown South, this one comes out cleaner than 16% 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 October 20, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.