Kinwa Peruvian Kitchen

• gradeGrade A ⏳
• grade postedApril 2, 2025
• inspection score31 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedOctober 3, 2026 →
• address98-01 Jamaica Avenue, Queens 11421
• cuisinePeruvian
• phone9172996036

Is Kinwa Peruvian Kitchen clean?

Kinwa Peruvian Kitchen currently carries Grade A ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). It was posted on April 2, 2025 and still stands. The place has been inspected again since — on October 3, 2026 scoring 31 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 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder the posted grade reads clean 😇; the numbers above come from the newer visit.

What did inspectors find at Kinwa Peruvian Kitchen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 3, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ❓food from a mystery sourcecritical
  Food, prohibited, from unapproved or unknown source, home canned or home prepared. Animal slaughtered, butchered or dressed (eviscerated, skinned) in establishment. Reduced Oxygen Packaged (ROP) fish not frozen before processing. ROP food prepared on premises transported to another site.
• 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical
  Shellfish not from approved source, not or improperly tagged/labeled; tags not retained for 90 days.
• 🪰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.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.

When was Kinwa Peruvian Kitchen last inspected?

Kinwa Peruvian Kitchen has 2 inspections on record going back to April 2, 2025, averaging 20 points.

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

Kinwa Peruvian Kitchen vs Richmond Hill

Richmond Hill runs 70% clean across 153 tracked restaurants — 96 clean, 14 mid, 27 cooked.

Against the 153 spots Cooked tracks in Richmond Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 83% 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 October 3, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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