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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 pestsEstablishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.
- 🐭they've got roommates (mice)criticalEvidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.
- 🪰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.
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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 6, 2025 | Grade A | 12 pts |
| October 31, 2024 | no grade issued ⏳ | 18 pts |
| June 29, 2023 | Grade A | 5 pts |
| June 6, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 20 pts |
| January 3, 2023 | Grade A | 2 pts |
Top Hops Beer Shop vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 74% clean across 671 tracked restaurants — 443 clean, 46 mid, 106 cooked.
Against the 671 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.
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.