Soldiers Caribbean Buffet Restaurant

• gradeGrade A ⏳
• grade postedMarch 16, 2026
• inspection score26 pts
• critical violations4
• last inspectedSeptember 17, 2026 →
• address1439 St Johns Place, Brooklyn 11213
• cuisineCaribbean
• phone7187713663

Is Soldiers Caribbean Buffet Restaurant clean?

Soldiers Caribbean Buffet Restaurant currently carries Grade A ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). It was posted on March 16, 2026 and still stands. The place has been inspected again since — on September 17, 2026 scoring 26 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 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder the posted grade reads clean 😇; the numbers above come from the newer visit.

What did inspectors find at Soldiers Caribbean Buffet Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 17, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
• 🔪cross-contamination riskcritical
  Raw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• 🪰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.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.

When was Soldiers Caribbean Buffet Restaurant last inspected?

Soldiers Caribbean Buffet Restaurant has 5 inspections on record going back to January 11, 2024, averaging 22 points.

Graded visits shown below · newest first · tap a date for the record

Soldiers Caribbean Buffet Restaurant vs Crown Heights North

Crown Heights North runs 79% clean across 299 tracked restaurants — 209 clean, 17 mid, 37 cooked.

Against the 299 spots Cooked tracks in Crown Heights North, this one comes out cleaner than 57% 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 17, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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