Montezuma Restaurant

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score15 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedSeptember 10, 2025 →
• address119 West Kingsbridge Road, Bronx 10468
• cuisineMexican
• phone7186016400

Is Montezuma Restaurant clean?

Montezuma Restaurant is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 10, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Montezuma Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 10, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
• 🧽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.

When was Montezuma Restaurant last inspected?

Montezuma Restaurant has 5 inspections on record going back to June 5, 2023, averaging 22 points.

Montezuma Restaurant vs Van Cortlandt Village

Van Cortlandt Village runs 69% clean across 45 tracked restaurants — 29 clean, 7 mid, 6 cooked.

Against the 45 spots Cooked tracks in Van Cortlandt Village, this one comes out cleaner than 26% 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 September 10, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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