Rinconcito Familiar Mexican Cuisine

• gradeGrade B ⏳
• grade postedJanuary 17, 2025
• inspection score35 pts
• critical violations5
• last inspectedJuly 31, 2026 →
• address4118 5 Avenue, Brooklyn 11232
• cuisineMexican
• phone3479873681

Is Rinconcito Familiar Mexican Cuisine clean?

Rinconcito Familiar Mexican Cuisine currently carries Grade B ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). It was posted on January 17, 2025 and still stands. The place has been inspected again since — on July 31, 2026 scoring 35 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 5 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 Rinconcito Familiar Mexican Cuisine?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 31, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🕳️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.
• 🪰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.
• 🧊food not cooled down rightcritical
  After cooking or removal from hot holding, TCS food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal temperature is reduced from 140 °F to 70 °F or less within 2 hours, and from 70 °F to 41 °F or less within 4 additional hours.
• 🦪shellfish with no paper trailcritical
  Shellfish not from approved source, not or improperly tagged/labeled; tags not retained for 90 days.
• 🌡️fridge is giving… room tempcritical
  Cold TCS food item held above 41 °F; smoked or processed fish held above 38 °F; intact raw eggs held above 45 °F; or reduced oxygen packaged (ROP) TCS foods held above required temperatures except during active necessary preparation.

When was Rinconcito Familiar Mexican Cuisine last inspected?

Rinconcito Familiar Mexican Cuisine has 6 inspections on record going back to May 10, 2023, averaging 29 points.

Rinconcito Familiar Mexican Cuisine vs Sunset Park West

Sunset Park West runs 82% clean across 229 tracked restaurants — 166 clean, 8 mid, 29 cooked.

Against the 229 spots Cooked tracks in Sunset Park West, 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 July 31, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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