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Textbook Coffee
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score27 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedOctober 30, 2025
- address118 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn 11201
- cuisineCoffee/Tea
- phone5167282684
Is Textbook Coffee clean?
Textbook Coffee is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 30, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Textbook Coffee?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 30, 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.
- 🛠️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.
- 🍽️food left out / unprotectedcriticalFood, 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 not properly sanitizedcriticalFood contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred.
- 🗑️garbage situation out of pocketPesticide not properly labeled or used by unlicensed individual. Pesticide, other toxic chemical improperly used/stored. Unprotected, unlocked bait station used.
- ⚠️Current letter grade or Grade Pending card not postedCurrent letter grade or Grade Pending card not posted
When was Textbook Coffee last inspected?
Textbook Coffee has 6 inspections on record going back to November 17, 2022, averaging 14 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 30, 2025 | Grade B | 27 pts |
| September 18, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 18 pts |
| April 18, 2025 | Grade B | 17 pts |
| January 29, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 11 pts |
| January 19, 2024 | Grade A | 3 pts |
| November 17, 2022 | Grade A | 10 pts |
Textbook Coffee vs Fort Greene
Fort Greene runs 76% clean across 148 tracked restaurants — 103 clean, 10 mid, 23 cooked.
Against the 148 spots Cooked tracks in Fort Greene, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 October 30, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.