St Bess Restaurant

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score13 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 30, 2025 →
• address4466 Baychester Avenue, Bronx 10466
• cuisineCaribbean
• phone3479646333

Is St Bess Restaurant clean?

St Bess Restaurant is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 30, 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 St Bess Restaurant?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 30, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcritical
  Food, 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.
• 🛠️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 St Bess Restaurant last inspected?

St Bess Restaurant has 4 inspections on record going back to February 15, 2023, averaging 21 points.

St Bess Restaurant vs Woodlawn-Wakefield

Woodlawn-Wakefield runs 78% clean across 77 tracked restaurants — 58 clean, 6 mid, 10 cooked.

Against the 77 spots Cooked tracks in Woodlawn-Wakefield, 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 October 30, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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