New Empire Kitchen

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedJuly 2, 2025 →
• address17-02 Utopia Parkway, Queens 11357
• cuisineChinese
• phone7183522228

Is New Empire Kitchen clean?

New Empire Kitchen is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on July 2, 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 New Empire Kitchen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcritical
  Food, 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.
• 🌡️fridge is giving… room tempcritical
  Cold TCS food item held above 41 °F; smoked or processed fish held above 38 °F; intact raw eggs held above 45 °F; or reduced oxygen packaged (ROP) TCS foods held above required temperatures except during active necessary preparation.

When was New Empire Kitchen last inspected?

New Empire Kitchen has 3 inspections on record going back to May 11, 2023, averaging 16 points.

New Empire Kitchen vs Ft. Totten-Bay Terrace-Clearview

Ft. Totten-Bay Terrace-Clearview runs 93% clean across 49 tracked restaurants — 42 clean, 0 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 49 spots Cooked tracks in Ft. Totten-Bay Terrace-Clearview, this one comes out cleaner than 13% 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 July 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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