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Olea
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score26 pts
- critical violations4
- last inspectedNovember 17, 2025
- address171 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn 11238
- cuisineMediterranean
- phone7186437003
Is Olea clean?
Olea is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on November 17, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Olea?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🪳roaches are dining toocriticalLive roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcriticalFood contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
- 🧫equipment / surface issueWash hands sign not posted near or above hand washing sink.
- 🐭they've got roommates (mice)criticalEvidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
- 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcriticalFood, 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.
When was Olea last inspected?
Olea has 5 inspections on record going back to November 25, 2022, averaging 20 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 17, 2025 | Grade B | 26 pts |
| April 3, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 20 pts |
| April 30, 2024 | Grade B | 19 pts |
| February 8, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 20 pts |
| November 25, 2022 | Grade A | 13 pts |
Olea vs Fort Greene
Fort Greene runs 76% clean across 148 tracked restaurants — 103 clean, 10 mid, 23 cooked.
Against the 148 spots Cooked tracks in Fort Greene, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 November 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.