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Max Bakery & Restaurant
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score27 pts
- critical violations4
- last inspectedMarch 25, 2026
- address37-63 90 Street, Queens 11372
- cuisineBakery Products/Desserts
- phone3478453942
Is Max Bakery & Restaurant clean?
Max Bakery & Restaurant is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on March 25, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Max Bakery & Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 25, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- ⚠️Providing single-use plastic stirrers or single-use plastic splash sticks.Providing single-use plastic stirrers or single-use plastic splash sticks.
- 🧼staff skipping handwashingcriticalPersonal 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.
- 🧫equipment / surface issuecriticalSwollen, leaking, rusted or otherwise damaged canned food to be returned to distributor not segregated from intact product and clearly labeled DO NOT USE
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeNon-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.
- ⚠️Failure to display required signage about plastic straw availabilityFailure to display required signage about plastic straw availability
- 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcriticalFood, 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.
- 🪳roaches are dining toocriticalLive roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
When was Max Bakery & Restaurant last inspected?
Max Bakery & Restaurant has 12 inspections on record going back to July 10, 2023, averaging 32 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 25, 2026 | Grade B | 27 pts |
| February 10, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 27 pts |
| March 6, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| December 24, 2024 | Grade C | 4 pts |
| December 19, 2024 | closed by the city | 54 pts |
| July 12, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 30 pts |
| August 28, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 7 pts |
| August 21, 2023 | closed by the city | 33 pts |
| August 14, 2023 | closed by the city | 33 pts |
| August 8, 2023 | closed by the city | 53 pts |
| July 24, 2023 | Grade C | 51 pts |
| July 10, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 57 pts |
Max Bakery & Restaurant vs Jackson Heights
Jackson Heights runs 75% clean across 345 tracked restaurants — 241 clean, 38 mid, 44 cooked.
Against the 345 spots Cooked tracks in Jackson Heights, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 March 25, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.