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Taqueria By El Prieto Nyc
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 17, 2025
- address139 West 28 Street, Manhattan 10001
- cuisineMexican
- phone9179460151
Is Taqueria By El Prieto Nyc clean?
Taqueria By El Prieto Nyc is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on July 17, 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 Taqueria By El Prieto Nyc?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🪰flies in the housecriticalFilth 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.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
When was Taqueria By El Prieto Nyc last inspected?
Taqueria By El Prieto Nyc has 6 inspections on record going back to August 29, 2022, averaging 25 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 17, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| June 18, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 30 pts |
| December 28, 2023 | Grade A | 11 pts |
| December 18, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 55 pts |
| September 8, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 6 pts |
| August 29, 2022 | no grade issued ⏳ | 32 pts |
Taqueria By El Prieto Nyc vs Midtown-Midtown South
Midtown-Midtown South runs 84% clean across 2,257 tracked restaurants — 1,596 clean, 96 mid, 216 cooked.
Against the 2,257 spots Cooked tracks in Midtown-Midtown South, this one comes out cleaner than 22% 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 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.