Mother's Ruin

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score13 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedNovember 6, 2025 →
• address18 Spring Street, Manhattan 10012
• cuisineAmerican
• phone8458539124

Is Mother's Ruin clean?

Mother's Ruin is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on November 6, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Mother's Ruin?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🐛pest / contamination issuecritical
  Properly scaled and calibrated thermometer or thermocouple not provided or not readily accessible in food preparation and hot/cold holding areas to measure temperatures of TCS foods during cooking, cooling, reheating, and holding.
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  After cooking or removal from hot holding, TCS food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal temperature is reduced from 140 °F to 70 °F or less within 2 hours, and from 70 °F to 41 °F or less within 4 additional hours.

When was Mother's Ruin last inspected?

Mother's Ruin has 3 inspections on record going back to October 16, 2023, averaging 22 points.

Mother's Ruin vs SoHo-TriBeCa-Civic Center-Little Italy

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Against the 843 spots Cooked tracks in SoHo-TriBeCa-Civic Center-Little Italy, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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 November 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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