Palermo Pastry Shop

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score19 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedDecember 26, 2025 →
• address5517 Avenue N, Brooklyn 11234
• cuisineBakery Products/Desserts
• phone7189681672

Is Palermo Pastry Shop clean?

Palermo Pastry Shop is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on December 26, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Palermo Pastry Shop?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 26, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🐭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.
• 🍽️dishwashing setup off
  Single service article not provided. Single service article reused or not protected from contamination when transported, stored, dispensed. Drinking straws not completely enclosed in wrapper or dispensed from a sanitary device.
• 🍽️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.

When was Palermo Pastry Shop last inspected?

Palermo Pastry Shop has 6 inspections on record going back to April 18, 2023, averaging 25 points.

Palermo Pastry Shop vs Flatlands

Flatlands runs 74% clean across 102 tracked restaurants — 70 clean, 10 mid, 14 cooked.

Against the 102 spots Cooked tracks in Flatlands, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 December 26, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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