North Shore Diner

• gradeGrade C ⏳
• grade postedApril 14, 2025
• inspection score45 pts
• critical violations5
• last inspectedSeptember 19, 2026 →
• address196-52 Northern Boulevard, Queens 11358
• cuisineAmerican
• phone7182258000

Is North Shore Diner clean?

North Shore Diner currently carries Grade C ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). It was posted on April 14, 2025 and still stands. The place has been inspected again since — on September 19, 2026 scoring 45 points — but NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has not ruled on that visit, so no new grade has been issued. Inspectors wrote up 5 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder the posted grade reads cooked 🚩; the numbers above come from the newer visit.

What did inspectors find at North Shore Diner?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Non-food contact surface or equipment made of unacceptable material, not kept clean, or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit.
• 🍽️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.
• 📋no certified food supervisor on dutycritical
  Food Protection Certificate (FPC) not held by manager or supervisor of food operations.
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
  Roaches were cited at this visit · September 19, 2026.
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical
  Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
• 🚰handwashing sink issuescritical
  No hand washing facility in or adjacent to toilet room or within 25 feet of a food preparation, food service or ware washing area. Hand washing facility not accessible, obstructed or used for non-hand washing purposes. No hot and cold running water or water at inadequate pressure. No soap or acceptable hand-drying device.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.

When was North Shore Diner last inspected?

North Shore Diner has 10 inspections on record going back to September 6, 2022, averaging 31 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

North Shore Diner vs Auburndale

Auburndale runs 79% clean across 45 tracked restaurants — 34 clean, 2 mid, 7 cooked.

Against the 45 spots Cooked tracks in Auburndale, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 September 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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