Malai Ice Cream

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score7 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedNovember 6, 2025
• address268 Smith Street, Brooklyn 11231
• cuisineFrozen Desserts
• phone3478895789

Is Malai Ice Cream clean?

Malai Ice Cream is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on November 6, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Malai Ice Cream?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Non-food contact surface or equipment made of unacceptable material, not kept clean, or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit.
• 🍴utensils stored sketchycritical
  Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.

When was Malai Ice Cream last inspected?

Malai Ice Cream has 3 inspections on record going back to April 10, 2023, averaging 9 points.

Malai Ice Cream vs Carroll Gardens-Columbia Street-Red Hook

Carroll Gardens-Columbia Street-Red Hook runs 87% clean across 225 tracked restaurants — 163 clean, 2 mid, 23 cooked.

Against the 225 spots Cooked tracks in Carroll Gardens-Columbia Street-Red Hook, this one comes out cleaner than 75% 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 November 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.