Palo Bar

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score20 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedJuly 1, 2026 →
• address38-12 104 Street, Queens 11368
• cuisineLatin American
• phone9179125951

Is Palo Bar clean?

Palo Bar is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on July 1, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Palo Bar?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 1, 2026, 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.
• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
• 🪰flies in the housecritical
  Filth flies or food/refuse/sewage associated with (FRSA) flies or other nuisance pests in establishment’s food and/or non-food areas. FRSA flies include house flies, blow flies, bottle flies, flesh flies, drain flies, Phorid flies and fruit flies.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.

When was Palo Bar last inspected?

Palo Bar has 4 inspections on record going back to March 1, 2024, averaging 29 points.

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

Palo Bar vs North Corona

North Corona runs 72% clean across 199 tracked restaurants — 131 clean, 28 mid, 22 cooked.

Against the 199 spots Cooked tracks in North Corona, this one comes out cleaner than 22% 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 July 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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