King Barka

• gradeGrade C ⏳
• grade postedMay 6, 2025
• inspection score13 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedAugust 4, 2025 →
• address301 West 135 Street, Manhattan 10030
• cuisineCaribbean
• phone6469520394

Is King Barka clean?

King Barka currently carries Grade C ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). It was posted on May 6, 2025 and still stands. The place has been inspected again since — on August 4, 2025 scoring 13 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 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder the posted grade reads cooked 🚩; the numbers above come from the newer visit.

What did inspectors find at King Barka?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 4, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
• 🪰flies in the housecritical
  Filth 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.

When was King Barka last inspected?

King Barka has 4 inspections on record going back to August 31, 2023, averaging 27 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

King Barka vs Central Harlem North-Polo Grounds

Central Harlem North-Polo Grounds runs 67% clean across 95 tracked restaurants — 58 clean, 4 mid, 24 cooked.

Against the 95 spots Cooked tracks in Central Harlem North-Polo Grounds, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 4, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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