Picnic Garden Bbq Buffet

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score22 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedSeptember 2, 2025 →
• address154-05 Northern Boulevard, Queens 11354
• cuisineBarbecue
• phone7188865050

Is Picnic Garden Bbq Buffet clean?

Picnic Garden Bbq Buffet is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 2, 2025. 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 Picnic Garden Bbq Buffet?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍽️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.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical
  Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

When was Picnic Garden Bbq Buffet last inspected?

Picnic Garden Bbq Buffet has 2 inspections on record going back to September 5, 2024, averaging 20 points.

Picnic Garden Bbq Buffet vs Murray Hill

Murray Hill runs 68% clean across 228 tracked restaurants — 135 clean, 22 mid, 42 cooked.

Against the 228 spots Cooked tracks in Murray Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 28% 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 September 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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