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Tasty Cow 88 Szechuan Cuisine
- gradeGrade C ⏳
- inspection score34 pts
- critical violations4
- last inspectedJuly 18, 2025
- address249-04 Horace Harding Expressway, Queens 11362
- cuisineChinese
- phone9178731208
Is Tasty Cow 88 Szechuan Cuisine clean?
Tasty Cow 88 Szechuan Cuisine is currently Grade C ⏳ from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on July 18, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 4 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳. There is a newer inspection the city has not ruled on yet, so the posted grade still stands for now.
What did inspectors find at Tasty Cow 88 Szechuan Cuisine?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 18, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to codeNon-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.
- 🔪cross-contamination riskcriticalRaw, cooked or prepared food is adulterated, contaminated, cross-contaminated, or not discarded in accordance with HACCP plan.
- 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🍲hot food sitting too coolcriticalHot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcriticalFood contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
- 🐀rats have moved incriticalEvidence of rats or live rats in establishment's food or non-food areas.
When was Tasty Cow 88 Szechuan Cuisine last inspected?
Tasty Cow 88 Szechuan Cuisine has 4 inspections on record going back to February 16, 2024, averaging 38 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 2, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 43 pts |
| July 18, 2025 | Grade C | 34 pts |
| June 2, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 60 pts |
| February 16, 2024 | Grade A | 13 pts |
Tasty Cow 88 Szechuan Cuisine vs Douglas Manor-Douglaston-Little Neck
Douglas Manor-Douglaston-Little Neck runs 81% clean across 76 tracked restaurants — 56 clean, 2 mid, 11 cooked.
Against the 76 spots Cooked tracks in Douglas Manor-Douglaston-Little Neck, this one comes out cleaner than 9% 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 18, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.