Tepangos Pizza & Mexican Food

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMay 12, 2025
• address361 East 138 Street, Bronx 10454
• cuisinePizza
• phone7185857377

Is Tepangos Pizza & Mexican Food clean?

Tepangos Pizza & Mexican Food is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on May 12, 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 Tepangos Pizza & Mexican Food?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 12, 2025, 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.
• 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcritical
  Food, 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.
• 🛠️surfaces / setup not up to code
  Non-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.

When was Tepangos Pizza & Mexican Food last inspected?

Tepangos Pizza & Mexican Food has 3 inspections on record going back to June 16, 2022, averaging 10 points.

Tepangos Pizza & Mexican Food vs Mott Haven-Port Morris

Mott Haven-Port Morris runs 70% clean across 136 tracked restaurants — 87 clean, 9 mid, 28 cooked.

Against the 136 spots Cooked tracks in Mott Haven-Port Morris, this one comes out cleaner than 69% 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 May 12, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.