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Shama Restaurant & Sweets
- gradeGrade C
- inspection score30 pts
- critical violations5
- last inspectedApril 1, 2026
- address232 Neptune Avenue, Brooklyn 11235
- cuisinePakistani
- phone7183681721
Is Shama Restaurant & Sweets clean?
Shama Restaurant & Sweets is currently Grade C from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on April 1, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 5 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Shama Restaurant & Sweets?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 1, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🪳roaches are dining toocriticalLive roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🤒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.
- 🐭they've got roommates (mice)criticalEvidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
- 🍴utensils stored sketchycriticalSanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
- 🌡️fridge is giving… room tempcriticalCold 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 Shama Restaurant & Sweets last inspected?
Shama Restaurant & Sweets has 4 inspections on record going back to August 25, 2023, averaging 21 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 1, 2026 | Grade C | 30 pts |
| October 28, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 29 pts |
| August 16, 2024 | Grade A | 8 pts |
| August 25, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 18 pts |
Shama Restaurant & Sweets vs Brighton Beach
Brighton Beach runs 69% clean across 79 tracked restaurants — 45 clean, 2 mid, 18 cooked.
Against the 79 spots Cooked tracks in Brighton Beach, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 April 1, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.