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La Esquinita Del Sazon Juice Bar
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 6, 2025
- address1820 Grand Concourse, Bronx 10457
- cuisineLatin American
- phone3475741254
Is La Esquinita Del Sazon Juice Bar clean?
La Esquinita Del Sazon Juice Bar is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on May 6, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at La Esquinita Del Sazon Juice Bar?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧫food contact surfaces dirtyDesign, construction, materials used or maintenance of food contact surface improper. Surface not easily cleanable, sanitized and maintained.
- 🍲hot food sitting too coolcriticalHot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
When was La Esquinita Del Sazon Juice Bar last inspected?
La Esquinita Del Sazon Juice Bar has 9 inspections on record going back to August 24, 2022, averaging 20 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 6, 2025 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| March 26, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 28 pts |
| January 21, 2025 | Grade C | 43 pts |
| January 13, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 19 pts |
| May 10, 2024 | Grade C | 2 pts |
| May 8, 2024 | closed by the city | 30 pts |
| December 4, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 27 pts |
| September 29, 2022 | Grade B | 19 pts |
| August 24, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
La Esquinita Del Sazon Juice Bar vs Mount Hope
Mount Hope runs 78% clean across 77 tracked restaurants — 51 clean, 8 mid, 6 cooked.
Against the 77 spots Cooked tracks in Mount Hope, this one comes out cleaner than 38% 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.
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 May 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.