Sweetgreen

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score13 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedFebruary 19, 2026 →
• address1321 1 Avenue, Manhattan 10021
• cuisineSalads
• phone6464906858

Is Sweetgreen clean?

Sweetgreen is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on February 19, 2026. 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 Sweetgreen?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on February 19, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧫food contact surfaces dirty
  Design, construction, materials used or maintenance of food contact surface improper. Surface not easily cleanable, sanitized and maintained.
• 🧻grimy wiping clothscritical
  Wiping cloths not stored clean and dry, or in a sanitizing solution, between uses.
• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical
  Food contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.

When was Sweetgreen last inspected?

Sweetgreen has 3 inspections on record going back to March 18, 2024, averaging 11 points.

Sweetgreen vs Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island

Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island runs 79% clean across 325 tracked restaurants — 232 clean, 16 mid, 44 cooked.

Against the 325 spots Cooked tracks in Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 February 19, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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