Cooked?
Tropical Taste Restaurant And Bakery
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score13 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 2, 2025
- address702 Rockaway Avenue, Brooklyn 11212
- cuisineCaribbean
- phone3473830375
Is Tropical Taste Restaurant And Bakery clean?
Tropical Taste Restaurant And Bakery is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on May 2, 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 Tropical Taste Restaurant And Bakery?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 2, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 📋no certified food supervisor on dutycriticalFood Protection Certificate (FPC) not held by manager or supervisor of food operations.
- 🛠️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.
When was Tropical Taste Restaurant And Bakery last inspected?
Tropical Taste Restaurant And Bakery has 3 inspections on record going back to September 30, 2022, averaging 11 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2025 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| January 18, 2024 | Grade A | 3 pts |
| September 30, 2022 | Grade B | 17 pts |
Tropical Taste Restaurant And Bakery vs Brownsville
Brownsville runs 81% clean across 92 tracked restaurants — 71 clean, 4 mid, 13 cooked.
Against the 92 spots Cooked tracks in Brownsville, this one comes out cleaner than 20% of them.
Other spots in Brownsville
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 May 2, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.