Kuu

• gradeGrade pending
• grade postedSeptember 27, 2022
• inspection score27 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedSeptember 17, 2026 →
• address20 John Street, Manhattan 10038
• cuisineJapanese
• phone2125717177

Is Kuu clean?

New York currently lists Kuu as grade pending, following an inspection on September 17, 2026 that scored 27 points. The city has not posted a letter yet, and it will not until a re-inspection settles it. The last grade it ever posted here was B on September 27, 2022.

What did inspectors find at Kuu?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🍽️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.
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
  Roaches were cited at this visit · September 17, 2026.
• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.

When was Kuu last inspected?

Kuu has 7 inspections on record going back to September 27, 2022, averaging 24 points.

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

Kuu vs Battery Park City-Lower Manhattan

Battery Park City-Lower Manhattan runs 85% clean across 640 tracked restaurants — 449 clean, 15 mid, 64 cooked.

Against the 640 spots Cooked tracks in Battery Park City-Lower Manhattan, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.

Other spots in Battery Park City-Lower Manhattan

• A Retro Fitness
  clean · December 2, 2025
• A Chipotle Mexican Grill
  clean · December 9, 2025
• A Starbucks
  clean · October 16, 2026
• A Industry Kitchen
  clean · December 30, 2025
• A One World Observatory
  clean · October 18, 2025
• A Brown Brothers Harriman
  clean · June 24, 2026

See every restaurant inspection in Battery Park City-Lower Manhattan →

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.

Read the New York ratings guide →

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 September 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

check your own block 📸

Cooked covers 10 cities on official inspection data — see who's clean, mid, or cooked near you.