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Yaya Tea
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score7 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 16, 2025
- address80 Dekalb Avenue, Brooklyn 11201
- cuisineAsian/Asian Fusion
- phone7182690830
Is Yaya Tea clean?
Yaya Tea is currently Grade A from NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), from an inspection on October 16, 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 Yaya Tea?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 16, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧊food not cooled down rightcriticalAfter cooking or removal from hot holding, TCS food not cooled by an approved method whereby the internal temperature is reduced from 140 °F to 70 °F or less within 2 hours, and from 70 °F to 41 °F or less within 4 additional hours.
When was Yaya Tea last inspected?
Yaya Tea has 12 inspections on record going back to July 7, 2023, averaging 7 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 16, 2025 | Grade A | 7 pts |
| October 11, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| October 5, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| September 27, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| August 28, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 16 pts |
| August 23, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| July 25, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| June 15, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| April 26, 2025 | no grade issued ⏳ | 0 pts |
| June 3, 2024 | Grade A | 13 pts |
| July 21, 2023 | Grade A | 10 pts |
| July 7, 2023 | no grade issued ⏳ | 33 pts |
Yaya Tea vs Fort Greene
Fort Greene runs 76% clean across 148 tracked restaurants — 103 clean, 10 mid, 23 cooked.
Against the 148 spots Cooked tracks in Fort Greene, 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.
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 October 16, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.