Kuku Korean Cuisine

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score13 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedOctober 21, 2026 →
• address12-09 Jackson Avenue, Queens 11101
• cuisineKorean
• phone7187068888

Is Kuku Korean Cuisine clean?

Kuku Korean Cuisine is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 21, 2026. 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 Kuku Korean Cuisine?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 21, 2026, 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.
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical
  Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

When was Kuku Korean Cuisine last inspected?

Kuku Korean Cuisine has 6 inspections on record going back to October 21, 2024, averaging 26 points.

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Kuku Korean Cuisine vs Hunters Point-Sunnyside-West Maspeth

Hunters Point-Sunnyside-West Maspeth runs 77% clean across 575 tracked restaurants — 378 clean, 32 mid, 79 cooked.

Against the 575 spots Cooked tracks in Hunters Point-Sunnyside-West Maspeth, this one comes out cleaner than 23% 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 21, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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