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Poetica Coffee
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedDecember 18, 2025
- address1233 Prospect Avenue, Brooklyn 11218
- cuisineCoffee/Tea
- phone9177975131
Is Poetica Coffee clean?
Poetica Coffee is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on December 18, 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 Poetica Coffee?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 18, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍽️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.
- 🐈random live animals insidecriticalLive animal other than fish in tank or service animal present in facility’s food or non-food area.
When was Poetica Coffee last inspected?
Poetica Coffee has 4 inspections on record going back to January 26, 2023, averaging 11 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 18, 2025 | Grade A | 10 pts |
| October 21, 2024 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| July 26, 2023 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| January 26, 2023 | Grade A | 8 pts |
Poetica Coffee vs Windsor Terrace
Windsor Terrace runs 89% clean across 66 tracked restaurants — 55 clean, 2 mid, 5 cooked.
Against the 66 spots Cooked tracks in Windsor Terrace, this one comes out cleaner than 40% 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 December 18, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.