Johnny's Reef Restaurant

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedNovember 20, 2025 →
• address2 City Island Avenue, Bronx 10464
• cuisineSeafood
• phone7188852086

Is Johnny's Reef Restaurant clean?

Johnny's Reef Restaurant is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on November 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 Johnny's Reef Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 20, 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.
• 🔪cross-contamination riskcritical
  Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.

When was Johnny's Reef Restaurant last inspected?

Johnny's Reef Restaurant has 3 inspections on record going back to May 11, 2023, averaging 15 points.

Johnny's Reef Restaurant vs Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island

Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island runs 84% clean across 74 tracked restaurants — 59 clean, 3 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 74 spots Cooked tracks in Pelham Bay-Country Club-City Island, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 November 20, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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