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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 pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🪳roaches are dining toocriticalLive roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcriticalFood 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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 10, 2025 | Grade B | 15 pts |
| April 14, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 18 pts |
| February 5, 2025 | Grade C | 30 pts |
| May 30, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 29 pts |
| June 5, 2023 | Grade B | 16 pts |
Montezuma Restaurant vs Van Cortlandt Village
Van Cortlandt Village runs 71% clean across 44 tracked restaurants — 29 clean, 7 mid, 5 cooked.
Against the 44 spots Cooked tracks in Van Cortlandt Village, this one comes out cleaner than 24% 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 September 10, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.