The Freakin Rican

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score10 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedApril 17, 2025 →
• address43-06 34 Avenue, Queens 11101
• cuisineLatin American
• phone9293491080

Is The Freakin Rican clean?

The Freakin Rican is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on April 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 The Freakin Rican?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️Failure to display required signage about plastic straw availability
• 🛠️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.
• ⚠️Providing single-use, non-compostable plastic straws to customers without customer request (including providing such straws at a self-serve station)
• ⚠️Failure to post or conspicuously post healthy eating information
• 🍽️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.

When was The Freakin Rican last inspected?

The Freakin Rican has 3 inspections on record going back to June 15, 2022, averaging 8 points.

The Freakin Rican vs Astoria

Astoria runs 73% clean across 509 tracked restaurants — 326 clean, 41 mid, 77 cooked.

Against the 509 spots Cooked tracks in Astoria, this one comes out cleaner than 74% 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 April 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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