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Parilla Azteca
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedSeptember 29, 2025
- address1288 Westchester Avenue, Bronx 10459
- cuisineMexican
- phone7187081177
Is Parilla Azteca clean?
Parilla Azteca is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 29, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Parilla Azteca?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 29, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🪰flies in the housecriticalFilth 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)criticalEvidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
When was Parilla Azteca last inspected?
Parilla Azteca has 3 inspections on record going back to September 20, 2023, averaging 21 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 29, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| December 4, 2023 | Grade A | 6 pts |
| September 20, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 45 pts |
Parilla Azteca vs Hunts Point
Hunts Point runs 82% clean across 74 tracked restaurants — 58 clean, 1 mid, 12 cooked.
Against the 74 spots Cooked tracks in Hunts Point, this one comes out cleaner than 18% of them.
Other spots in Hunts Point
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 September 29, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.