Pj Restaurant & Bakery

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score19 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedSeptember 1, 2026 →
• address1339 St Johns Place, Brooklyn 11213
• cuisineCaribbean
• phone7183632450

Is Pj Restaurant & Bakery clean?

Pj Restaurant & Bakery is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 1, 2026. 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 Pj Restaurant & Bakery?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 1, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
  Roaches were cited at this visit · September 1, 2026.
• 🪰flies in the housecritical
  Filth 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.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🧻grimy wiping clothscritical
  Wiping cloths not stored clean and dry, or in a sanitizing solution, between uses.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Non-food contact surface or equipment made of unacceptable material, not kept clean, or not properly sealed, raised, spaced or movable to allow accessibility for cleaning on all sides, above and underneath the unit.

When was Pj Restaurant & Bakery last inspected?

Pj Restaurant & Bakery has 9 inspections on record going back to February 14, 2023, averaging 25 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Pj Restaurant & Bakery vs Crown Heights North

Crown Heights North runs 79% clean across 299 tracked restaurants — 209 clean, 17 mid, 37 cooked.

Against the 299 spots Cooked tracks in Crown Heights North, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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