Mama's Cooking

• gradeGrade B ⏳
• grade postedJune 25, 2025
• inspection score27 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedJuly 20, 2026 →
• address1044 Beach 21 Street, Queens 11691
• cuisineCaribbean
• phone7187597078

Is Mama's Cooking clean?

Mama's Cooking currently carries Grade B ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). It was posted on June 25, 2025 and still stands. The place has been inspected again since — on July 20, 2026 scoring 27 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 Mama's Cooking?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 20, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
• 🪰flies in the housecritical
  Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage associated with (FRSA) flies or other nuisance pests in establishment’s food and/or non-food areas. FRSA flies include house flies, blow flies, bottle flies, flesh flies, drain flies, Phorid flies and fruit flies.
• 🍽️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.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.

When was Mama's Cooking last inspected?

Mama's Cooking has 5 inspections on record going back to May 25, 2023, averaging 24 points.

Mama's Cooking vs Far Rockaway-Bayswater

Far Rockaway-Bayswater runs 74% clean across 45 tracked restaurants — 31 clean, 3 mid, 8 cooked.

Against the 45 spots Cooked tracks in Far Rockaway-Bayswater, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 July 20, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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