Nieves Tia Mimi Ices

• gradeGrade C
• inspection score43 pts
• critical violations5
• last inspectedMay 7, 2025 →
• address5421 5 Avenue, Brooklyn 11220
• cuisineMexican
• phone9178226425

Is Nieves Tia Mimi Ices clean?

Nieves Tia Mimi Ices is currently Grade C from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on May 7, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 5 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.

What did inspectors find at Nieves Tia Mimi Ices?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 7, 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.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• 🍴utensils stored sketchycritical
  Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
• 🤒sick worker near the foodcritical
  Food worker/food vendor does not use utensil or other barrier to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment.
• 📋no certified food supervisor on dutycritical
  Food Protection Certificate (FPC) not held by manager or supervisor of food operations.
• 🍽️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.
• ⚠️Current letter grade or Grade Pending card not posted

When was Nieves Tia Mimi Ices last inspected?

Nieves Tia Mimi Ices has 6 inspections on record going back to August 15, 2022, averaging 35 points.

Nieves Tia Mimi Ices vs Sunset Park East

Sunset Park East runs 74% clean across 373 tracked restaurants — 245 clean, 35 mid, 49 cooked.

Against the 373 spots Cooked tracks in Sunset Park East, 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.

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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 May 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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