Top Hops Beer Shop

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score12 pts
• critical violations2
• last inspectedAugust 6, 2025 →
• address88 Essex Street, Manhattan 10002
• cuisineAmerican
• phone9175179005

Is Top Hops Beer Shop clean?

Top Hops Beer Shop is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on August 6, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.

What did inspectors find at Top Hops Beer Shop?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🕳️basically rolling out the welcome mat for pests
  Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
• 🐭they've got roommates (mice)critical
  Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
• 🪰flies in the housecritical
  Filth 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.

When was Top Hops Beer Shop last inspected?

Top Hops Beer Shop has 5 inspections on record going back to January 3, 2023, averaging 11 points.

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Against the 685 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 33% 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 August 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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