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.

• 🍽️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.
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
  Roaches were cited at this visit · November 17, 2025.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🧽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.
• 🧫equipment / surface issue
  Wash hands sign not posted near or above hand washing sink.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.

When was Olea last inspected?

Olea has 5 inspections on record going back to November 25, 2022, averaging 20 points.

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

Olea vs Fort Greene

Fort Greene runs 74% clean across 156 tracked restaurants — 104 clean, 10 mid, 27 cooked.

Against the 156 spots Cooked tracks in Fort Greene, this one comes out cleaner than 6% of them.

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  clean · June 1, 2026
• ⏳ Walter's / Karasu
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• A M&J Navy Yard Sub Shoppe
  clean · November 6, 2025

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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.

Read the New York ratings guide →

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 November 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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