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Lee's Kitchen
- gradeGrade pending
- inspection score26 pts
- critical violations4
- last inspectedDecember 15, 2025
- address806 Burke Avenue, Bronx 10467
- cuisineChinese
- phone7182312003
Is Lee's Kitchen clean?
New York currently lists Lee's Kitchen as grade pending, following an inspection on December 15, 2025 that scored 26 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 A on August 28, 2023.
What did inspectors find at Lee's Kitchen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 15, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🐭they've got roommates (mice)criticalEvidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcriticalAfter cooking or removal from hot holding, TCS food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal temperature is reduced from 140 °F to 70 °F or less within 2 hours, and from 70 °F to 41 °F or less within 4 additional hours.
- 🍽️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.
- ⚠️Contract with a pest management professional not in place. Record of extermination activities not kept on premises.Contract with a pest management professional not in place. Record of extermination activities not kept on premises.
- 🪳roaches are dining toocriticalLive roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
When was Lee's Kitchen last inspected?
Lee's Kitchen has 5 inspections on record going back to August 28, 2023, averaging 25 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 15, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 26 pts |
| September 11, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 50 pts |
| January 16, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 22 pts |
| November 6, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 12 pts |
| August 28, 2023 | Grade A | 13 pts |
Lee's Kitchen vs Bronxdale
Bronxdale runs 79% clean across 58 tracked restaurants — 44 clean, 4 mid, 8 cooked.
Against the 58 spots Cooked tracks in Bronxdale, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 December 15, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.