Tamarind Island

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score11 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedJanuary 9, 2025 →
• address114-48 Sutphin Boulevard, Queens 11434
• cuisineCaribbean
• phone9174030925

Is Tamarind Island clean?

Tamarind Island is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on January 9, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Tamarind Island?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 9, 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.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• ⚠️Current letter grade or Grade Pending card not posted
• 🪰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.
• 🪳roaches are dining toocritical
  Live roaches in facility's food or non-food area.

When was Tamarind Island last inspected?

Tamarind Island has 4 inspections on record going back to January 31, 2023, averaging 33 points.

Tamarind Island vs Baisley Park

Baisley Park runs 79% clean across 54 tracked restaurants — 41 clean, 6 mid, 5 cooked.

Against the 54 spots Cooked tracks in Baisley Park, this one comes out cleaner than 35% of them.

Other spots in Baisley Park

• A Chef Lothian Kitchen
  clean · August 27, 2026
• A Mother Earth Juice Bar Cafe
  clean · June 19, 2026
• A Dnl Pizza Plus
  clean · June 30, 2025
• A Peppa's
  clean · January 7, 2026
• A The Juice Joint
  clean · September 26, 2025
• A The Quimby
  clean · July 23, 2026

See every restaurant inspection in Baisley Park →

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 January 9, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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