Lincoln Center Kitchen @ David Geffen Hall

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score13 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedNovember 15, 2019 →
• address132 West 65 Street, Manhattan 10023
• cuisineAmerican
• phone2128750203

Is Lincoln Center Kitchen @ David Geffen Hall clean?

Lincoln Center Kitchen @ David Geffen Hall is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on November 15, 2019. 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 Lincoln Center Kitchen @ David Geffen Hall?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 15, 2019, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  Food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal product temperature is reduced from 140º F to 70º F or less within 2 hours, and from 70º F to 41º F or less within 4 additional hours.
• 🍴utensils stored sketchycritical
  Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

When was Lincoln Center Kitchen @ David Geffen Hall last inspected?

Lincoln Center Kitchen @ David Geffen Hall has 4 inspections on record going back to August 15, 2017, averaging 12 points.

Lincoln Center Kitchen @ David Geffen Hall vs Lincoln Square

Lincoln Square runs 87% clean across 220 tracked restaurants — 172 clean, 6 mid, 20 cooked.

Against the 220 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Square, this one comes out cleaner than 13% 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 November 15, 2019. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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