Samuels Top Ranking Fish Shop

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score13 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedSeptember 5, 2025 →
• address3315 Church Avenue, Brooklyn 11203
• cuisineCaribbean
• phone9175756850

Is Samuels Top Ranking Fish Shop clean?

Samuels Top Ranking Fish Shop is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 5, 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 Samuels Top Ranking Fish Shop?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🛠️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.
• 🍽️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.
• 🧼staff skipping handwashingcritical
  Personal cleanliness is inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn where required. Jewelry worn on hands or arms. Fingernail polish worn or fingernails not kept clean and trimmed.

When was Samuels Top Ranking Fish Shop last inspected?

Samuels Top Ranking Fish Shop has 3 inspections on record going back to June 12, 2023, averaging 37 points.

Samuels Top Ranking Fish Shop vs Erasmus

Erasmus runs 71% clean across 99 tracked restaurants — 64 clean, 2 mid, 24 cooked.

Against the 99 spots Cooked tracks in Erasmus, this one comes out cleaner than 29% 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 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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