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Madison Cafe
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedSeptember 2, 2025
- address126 East Burnside Avenue, Bronx 10453
- cuisineAmerican
- phone7189933636
Is Madison Cafe clean?
Madison Cafe is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 2, 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 Madison Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchycriticalSanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
- 🔪cross-contamination riskcriticalRaw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
When was Madison Cafe last inspected?
Madison Cafe has 4 inspections on record going back to December 5, 2022, averaging 19 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 2, 2025 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| November 13, 2024 | Grade B | 18 pts |
| March 25, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 40 pts |
| December 5, 2022 | Grade A | 7 pts |
Madison Cafe 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 25% 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 September 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.