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Silver Palace Chinese Restaurant
- gradeGrade C ⏳
- inspection score32 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedJune 30, 2025
- address1430 Saint Nicholas Avenue, Manhattan 10033
- cuisineChinese
- phone6466969582
Is Silver Palace Chinese Restaurant clean?
Silver Palace Chinese Restaurant is currently Grade C ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on June 30, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳. There is a newer inspection the city has not ruled on yet, so the posted grade still stands for now.
What did inspectors find at Silver Palace Chinese Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 30, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🔥hot food not kept hot enoughcriticalTime/Temperature Control for Safety (TCS) food not cooked to required minimum internal temperature. • Poultry, poultry parts, ground and comminuted poultry, all stuffing containing poultry, meats, fish or ratites to or above 165 °F for 15 seconds with no interruption of the cooking process • Ground meat, and food containing ground and comminuted meat, to or above 158 °F for 15 seconds with no interruption of the cooking process, except per individual customer request • Pork, any food containing pork to or above 150 °F for 15 seconds • Mechanically tenderized or injected meats to or above 155 °F. • Whole meat roasts and beef steak to or above required temperature and time except per individual customer request • Raw animal foods cooked in microwave to or above165 °F, covered, rotated or stirred • All other foods to or above 140 °F for 15 seconds; shell eggs to or above 145 °F for 15 seconds except per individual customer request.
- 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcriticalFood, 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.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeNon-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.
- 🪳roaches are dining toocriticalLive roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
When was Silver Palace Chinese Restaurant last inspected?
Silver Palace Chinese Restaurant has 3 inspections on record going back to March 24, 2025, averaging 26 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 15, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 19 pts |
| June 30, 2025 | Grade C | 32 pts |
| March 24, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 28 pts |
Silver Palace Chinese Restaurant vs Washington Heights North
Washington Heights North runs 66% clean across 161 tracked restaurants — 92 clean, 10 mid, 37 cooked.
Against the 161 spots Cooked tracks in Washington Heights North, this one comes out cleaner than 12% 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 June 30, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.