Lissette Restaurant

• gradeGrade B ⏳
• grade postedAugust 18, 2025
• inspection score20 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedSeptember 24, 2026 →
• address501 West 145 Street, Manhattan 10031
• cuisineMexican
• phone2122343330

Is Lissette Restaurant clean?

Lissette Restaurant currently carries Grade B ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). It was posted on August 18, 2025 and still stands. The place has been inspected again since — on September 24, 2026 scoring 20 points — but NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has not ruled on that visit, so no new grade has been issued. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder the posted grade reads mid 😬; the numbers above come from the newer visit.

What did inspectors find at Lissette Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 24, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
  Roaches were cited at this visit · September 24, 2026.
• 🛠️facility / equipment issue
  Toilet facility not maintained or provided with toilet paper, waste receptacle or self-closing door.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🐀rats have moved incritical
  Evidence of rats or live rats in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical
  Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
• 🧫food contact surfaces dirty
  Design, construction, materials used or maintenance of food contact surface improper. Surface not easily cleanable, sanitized and maintained.

When was Lissette Restaurant last inspected?

Lissette Restaurant has 6 inspections on record going back to January 18, 2024, averaging 26 points.

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

Lissette Restaurant vs Hamilton Heights

Hamilton Heights runs 67% clean across 134 tracked restaurants — 84 clean, 10 mid, 31 cooked.

Against the 134 spots Cooked tracks in Hamilton Heights, this one comes out cleaner than 29% 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 September 24, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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