Special Restaurant

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score13 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJuly 3, 2025 →
• address715 61 Street, Brooklyn 11220
• cuisineChinese
• phone6467560498

Is Special Restaurant clean?

Special Restaurant is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on July 3, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Special Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 3, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.
• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Non-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.

When was Special Restaurant last inspected?

Special Restaurant has 4 inspections on record going back to February 28, 2023, averaging 14 points.

Special Restaurant vs Sunset Park East

Sunset Park East runs 74% clean across 373 tracked restaurants — 245 clean, 35 mid, 49 cooked.

Against the 373 spots Cooked tracks in Sunset Park East, this one comes out cleaner than 32% 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 July 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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