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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.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🐭they've got roommates (mice)criticalEvidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
- 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcriticalFood, 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.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcriticalFood 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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 2, 2025 | Grade B | 22 pts |
| September 5, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 18 pts |
Picnic Garden Bbq Buffet vs Murray Hill
Murray Hill runs 66% clean across 222 tracked restaurants — 131 clean, 24 mid, 42 cooked.
Against the 222 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.
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.