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La Pizza Italia
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMarch 13, 2025
- address201 Avenue A, Manhattan 10009
- cuisinePizza
- phone9173883987
Is La Pizza Italia clean?
La Pizza Italia is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on March 13, 2025. 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 La Pizza Italia?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 13, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcriticalFood, 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.
- 🍲hot food sitting too coolcriticalHot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
When was La Pizza Italia last inspected?
La Pizza Italia has 4 inspections on record going back to October 17, 2022, averaging 29 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 13, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| October 3, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 9 pts |
| September 28, 2023 | closed by the city | 80 pts |
| October 17, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 15 pts |
La Pizza Italia vs East Village
East Village runs 77% clean across 732 tracked restaurants — 477 clean, 41 mid, 105 cooked.
Against the 732 spots Cooked tracks in East Village, 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.
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 March 13, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.