Sonora

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score13 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedMay 12, 2025 →
• address174 Howard Avenue, Brooklyn 11233
• cuisineMexican
• phone7185748100

Is Sonora clean?

Sonora is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on May 12, 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 Sonora?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 12, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🪰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.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.

When was Sonora last inspected?

Sonora has 5 inspections on record going back to July 6, 2022, averaging 14 points.

Sonora vs Stuyvesant Heights

Stuyvesant Heights runs 79% clean across 155 tracked restaurants — 110 clean, 7 mid, 22 cooked.

Against the 155 spots Cooked tracks in Stuyvesant Heights, this one comes out cleaner than 21% of them.

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• A Trad Room
  clean · March 2, 2026
• A Soldier's Jerk Center
  clean · March 25, 2025
• A Dabakh Kine Restaurant
  clean · March 24, 2026
• A Zig Zag
  clean · May 28, 2025

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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.

Read the New York ratings guide →

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 May 12, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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