Piccola Cucina Uptown is currently Grade A β³ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 26, 2024. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations β the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean π. There is a newer inspection the city has not ruled on yet, so the posted grade still stands for now.
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 26, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
Piccola Cucina Uptown has 3 inspections on record going back to August 9, 2023, averaging 19 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 21, 2026 | no grade issued β³ | 37 pts |
| September 26, 2024 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| August 9, 2023 | no grade issued β³ | 8 pts |
Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill runs 83% clean across 354 tracked restaurants β 266 clean, 21 mid, 35 cooked.
Against the 354 spots Cooked tracks in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 18% of them.
See every restaurant inspection in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill β
New York City health inspectors score violations in points, and lower is better: 0β13 points earns an A, 14β27 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 β it stays βGrade Pendingβ 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 β this listing's most recent inspection is dated September 26, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.