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Shades Of Green
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedSeptember 2, 2025
- address125 East 15 Street, Manhattan 10003
- cuisineAmerican
- phone2126741394
Is Shades Of Green clean?
Shades Of Green is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on September 2, 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 Shades Of Green?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🤒sick worker near the foodcriticalFood worker/food vendor does not use utensil or other barrier to eliminate bare hand contact with food that will not receive adequate additional heat treatment.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcriticalFood contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
When was Shades Of Green last inspected?
Shades Of Green has 4 inspections on record going back to April 11, 2023, averaging 14 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 2, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| May 6, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 20 pts |
| February 27, 2024 | Grade A | 11 pts |
| April 11, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 12 pts |
Shades Of Green vs Gramercy
Gramercy runs 81% clean across 263 tracked restaurants — 189 clean, 12 mid, 33 cooked.
Against the 263 spots Cooked tracks in Gramercy, this one comes out cleaner than 20% 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 September 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.