Mama Tala Restaurant

• gradeGrade A ⏳
• grade postedNovember 5, 2025
• inspection score23 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedOctober 9, 2026 →
• address582 Morris Avenue, Bronx 10451
• cuisineSpanish
• phone7182103700

Is Mama Tala Restaurant clean?

Mama Tala Restaurant currently carries Grade A ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). It was posted on November 5, 2025 and still stands. The place has been inspected again since — on October 9, 2026 scoring 23 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 clean 😇; the numbers above come from the newer visit.

What did inspectors find at Mama Tala Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 9, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧼staff skipping handwashingcritical
  Personal cleanliness is inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn where required. Jewelry worn on hands or arms. Fingernail polish worn or fingernails not kept clean and trimmed.
• 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcritical
  Food, 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.
• 🛠️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.
• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.

When was Mama Tala Restaurant last inspected?

Mama Tala Restaurant has 5 inspections on record going back to March 29, 2023, averaging 15 points.

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

Mama Tala Restaurant vs Melrose South-Mott Haven North

Melrose South-Mott Haven North runs 80% clean across 106 tracked restaurants — 78 clean, 2 mid, 18 cooked.

Against the 106 spots Cooked tracks in Melrose South-Mott Haven North, this one comes out cleaner than 67% 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 October 9, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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