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Joe's Shanghai Restaurant
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJune 12, 2025
- address46 Bowery, Manhattan 10013
- cuisineChinese
- phone2122338888
Is Joe's Shanghai Restaurant clean?
Joe's Shanghai Restaurant is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on June 12, 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 Shanghai Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 12, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍲hot food sitting too coolcriticalHot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
- 🍽️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.
When was Joe's Shanghai Restaurant last inspected?
Joe's Shanghai Restaurant has 5 inspections on record going back to June 27, 2022, averaging 21 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 12, 2025 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| February 4, 2025 | Grade C | 32 pts |
| July 30, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 26 pts |
| January 12, 2023 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| June 27, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 23 pts |
Joe's Shanghai Restaurant vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 74% clean across 671 tracked restaurants — 443 clean, 46 mid, 106 cooked.
Against the 671 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, 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.