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Jolene Sound Room
- gradeGrade C
- inspection score35 pts
- critical violations4
- last inspectedSeptember 21, 2024
- address353 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn 11211
- cuisineAmerican
- phone4134544292
Is Jolene Sound Room clean?
Jolene Sound Room is currently Grade C from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 21, 2024. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Jolene Sound Room?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 21, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcriticalFood contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
- 🪰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.
- 🤒sick worker near the foodcriticalFood worker/food vendor does not use utensil or other barrier to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment.
- 📋no certified food supervisor on dutycriticalFood Protection Certificate (FPC) not held by manager or supervisor of food operations.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
When was Jolene Sound Room last inspected?
Jolene Sound Room has 2 inspections on record going back to November 17, 2023, averaging 34 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 21, 2024 | Grade C | 35 pts |
| November 17, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 33 pts |
Jolene Sound Room vs North Side-South Side
North Side-South Side runs 80% clean across 573 tracked restaurants — 390 clean, 25 mid, 72 cooked.
Against the 573 spots Cooked tracks in North Side-South Side, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.
Other spots in North Side-South Side
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 September 21, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.