Xcellent Soul Food

• gradeGrade B
• inspection score23 pts
• critical violations3
• last inspectedAugust 19, 2025 →
• address372 Ralph Avenue, Brooklyn 11233
• cuisineSoul Food
• phone3476616112

Is Xcellent Soul Food clean?

Xcellent Soul Food is currently Grade B from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on August 19, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.

What did inspectors find at Xcellent Soul Food?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🪰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.
• 🌡️fridge is giving… room tempcritical
  Cold TCS food item held above 41 °F; smoked or processed fish held above 38 °F; intact raw eggs held above 45 °F; or reduced oxygen packaged (ROP) TCS foods held above required temperatures except during active necessary preparation.
• 🍲hot food sitting too coolcritical
  Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140 °F.

When was Xcellent Soul Food last inspected?

Xcellent Soul Food has 5 inspections on record going back to April 18, 2023, averaging 35 points.

Xcellent Soul Food vs Crown Heights North

Crown Heights North runs 80% clean across 291 tracked restaurants — 209 clean, 15 mid, 36 cooked.

Against the 291 spots Cooked tracks in Crown Heights North, this one comes out cleaner than 17% 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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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 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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