Playa Bowls

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score13 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedSeptember 19, 2025 →
• address50 Fulton Street, Manhattan 10038
• cuisineJuice, Smoothies, Fruit Salads
• phone6468526248

Is Playa Bowls clean?

Playa Bowls is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 19, 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 Playa Bowls?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍴utensils stored sketchycritical
  Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
• 🔪cross-contamination riskcritical
  Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.

When was Playa Bowls last inspected?

Playa Bowls has 4 inspections on record going back to June 23, 2023, averaging 15 points.

Playa Bowls vs Battery Park City-Lower Manhattan

Battery Park City-Lower Manhattan runs 86% clean across 625 tracked restaurants — 447 clean, 17 mid, 54 cooked.

Against the 625 spots Cooked tracks in Battery Park City-Lower Manhattan, this one comes out cleaner than 14% 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 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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