Ricos Tacos

• gradeGrade B ⏳
• grade postedFebruary 19, 2025
• inspection score17 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedSeptember 24, 2026 →
• address505 51 Street, Brooklyn 11220
• cuisineMexican
• phone7186334816

Is Ricos Tacos clean?

Ricos Tacos currently carries Grade B ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). It was posted on February 19, 2025 and still stands. The place has been inspected again since — on September 24, 2026 scoring 17 points — but NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) has not ruled on that visit, so no new grade has been issued. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder the posted grade reads mid 😬; the numbers above come from the newer visit.

What did inspectors find at Ricos Tacos?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 24, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Current letter grade or Grade Pending card not posted
• 🪰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.
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
  Roaches were cited at this visit · September 24, 2026.
• 🍽️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.

When was Ricos Tacos last inspected?

Ricos Tacos has 6 inspections on record going back to September 6, 2022, averaging 22 points.

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

Ricos Tacos vs Sunset Park East

Sunset Park East runs 74% clean across 385 tracked restaurants — 248 clean, 36 mid, 51 cooked.

Against the 385 spots Cooked tracks in Sunset Park East, this one comes out cleaner than 20% of them.

Other spots in Sunset Park East

• ? Gina's Pizzeria
  not rated
• A Usuluteco
  clean · October 14, 2025
• A George's
  clean · August 7, 2026
• A Sunset Park Diner & Donuts
  clean · November 28, 2025
• A El Aguila Bakery
  clean · September 14, 2026
• A Cafe Con Pan Bakery
  clean · October 16, 2025

See every restaurant inspection in Sunset Park East →

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.

Read the New York ratings guide →

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 24, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

check your own block 📸

Cooked covers 10 cities on official inspection data — see who's clean, mid, or cooked near you.