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Sugar Hill Cafe
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score12 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJuly 2, 2025
- address410 West 145 Street, Manhattan 10031
- cuisineCoffee/Tea
- phone2122342024
Is Sugar Hill Cafe clean?
Sugar Hill Cafe is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on July 2, 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 Sugar Hill Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍽️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.
- ⚠️Failure to post or conspicuously post healthy eating informationFailure to post or conspicuously post healthy eating information
- ⚠️Providing single-use, non-compostable plastic straws to customers without customer request (including providing such straws at a self-serve station)Providing single-use, non-compostable plastic straws to customers without customer request (including providing such straws at a self-serve station)
- 🍴utensils stored sketchycriticalSanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored.
- ⚠️Current letter grade or Grade Pending card not postedCurrent letter grade or Grade Pending card not posted
- ⚠️Allergen or intolerance notice not translated into common language when requiredAllergen or intolerance notice not translated into common language when required
When was Sugar Hill Cafe last inspected?
Sugar Hill Cafe has 9 inspections on record going back to July 20, 2022, averaging 22 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 2, 2025 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| April 29, 2025 | Grade C | 38 pts |
| March 20, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 43 pts |
| October 29, 2024 | Grade C | 31 pts |
| July 25, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 26 pts |
| March 20, 2023 | Grade A | 2 pts |
| February 24, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 23 pts |
| September 9, 2022 | Grade A | 0 pts |
| July 20, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 26 pts |
Sugar Hill Cafe vs Hamilton Heights
Hamilton Heights runs 69% clean across 128 tracked restaurants — 82 clean, 10 mid, 27 cooked.
Against the 128 spots Cooked tracks in Hamilton Heights, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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 July 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.