Nicks Pizza Lounge

• gradeGrade C
• inspection score39 pts
• critical violations4
• last inspectedAugust 13, 2025
• address292 East Burnside Avenue, Bronx 10457
• cuisinePizza
• phone3472972890

Is Nicks Pizza Lounge clean?

Nicks Pizza Lounge is currently Grade C from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on August 13, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Nicks Pizza Lounge?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 13, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧫equipment / surface issue
  Thawing procedure improper.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🐛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.
• 📋no certified food supervisor on dutycritical
  Food Protection Certificate (FPC) not held by manager or supervisor of food operations.
• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
• 🛠️facility / equipment issue
  Dishwashing and ware washing: Cleaning and sanitizing of tableware, including dishes, utensils, and equipment deficient.

When was Nicks Pizza Lounge last inspected?

Nicks Pizza Lounge has 3 inspections on record going back to August 22, 2023, averaging 29 points.

Nicks Pizza Lounge vs Mount Hope

Mount Hope runs 78% clean across 77 tracked restaurants — 51 clean, 8 mid, 6 cooked.

Against the 77 spots Cooked tracks in Mount Hope, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 August 13, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.