Matrix Lounge & Restaurant

• gradeGrade pending
• inspection score23 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedMarch 1, 2025
• address325 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan 10027
• cuisineAmerican
• phone9175642180

Is Matrix Lounge & Restaurant clean?

New York currently lists Matrix Lounge & Restaurant as grade pending, following an inspection on March 1, 2025 that scored 23 points. The city has not posted a letter yet, and it will not until a re-inspection settles it.

What did inspectors find at Matrix Lounge & Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 1, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧽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.
• 🔪cross-contamination riskcritical
  Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
• 🪰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.
• 🕳️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 Matrix Lounge & Restaurant last inspected?

Matrix Lounge & Restaurant has 1 inspection on record going back to March 1, 2025, averaging 23 points.

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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 March 1, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.