Panda Garden is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on August 11, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 11, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
Panda Garden has 4 inspections on record going back to August 31, 2022, averaging 26 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 11, 2025 | Grade B | 26 pts |
| December 12, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 19 pts |
| February 8, 2023 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| August 31, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 46 pts |
Kew Gardens Hills runs 82% clean across 49 tracked restaurants — 37 clean, 4 mid, 4 cooked.
Against the 49 spots Cooked tracks in Kew Gardens Hills, this one comes out cleaner than 9% of them.
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 August 11, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.