Thai @ Lex

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score9 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedJuly 15, 2025 →
• address1244 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan 10028
• cuisineThai
• phone2122886060

Is Thai @ Lex clean?

Thai @ Lex is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on July 15, 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 Thai @ Lex?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 15, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🍽️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.
• 🧫equipment / surface issue
  Swollen, leaking, rusted or otherwise damaged canned food to be returned to distributor not segregated from intact product and clearly labeled DO NOT USE

When was Thai @ Lex last inspected?

Thai @ Lex has 4 inspections on record going back to May 3, 2023, averaging 17 points.

Thai @ Lex vs Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill

Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill runs 83% clean across 360 tracked restaurants — 267 clean, 21 mid, 35 cooked.

Against the 360 spots Cooked tracks in Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 65% 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.

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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 July 15, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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