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NYC restaurant inspection grades and violations

Look up a restaurant in the five boroughs by name, ZIP code, borough or cuisine, and read its inspections in date order: the score, the letter grade, and every violation in the Health Department’s own words. Looking up a restaurant is free, and the record you read is the Health Department’s public one.

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Enter a name or a ZIP code, or choose a borough or a cuisine, then press Search.

Reading a record

One row is one violation

One row in the city’s data is one violation — not one inspection and not one restaurant. This page groups the rows for you. A search lists establishments, 25 at a time, in order of name. A record lists one establishment’s inspections in date order, newest first, with a button to turn the order round, and under each inspection the violations that were cited at it.

  • Inspection type and action are the dataset’s own words: which programme visited, and what the inspection led to. When two programmes visited on the same day, each is listed on its own, because each has its own score.
  • Score is the total of the points for that inspection. A lower score is a better one. How NYC restaurant grades and points work explains where points come from and when a score becomes a letter.
  • Grade is shown only where the dataset holds one for that inspection, with its grade date. Many inspections are scored and not graded.
  • Critical and Not Critical are the dataset’s flag. Its data dictionary describes critical violations as the ones most likely to contribute to foodborne illness.
  • Not yet inspected. The dataset gives an establishment that has a permit application and no inspection the date 1 January 1900. This page says “not yet inspected” instead of showing that date.

The latest grade at the top of a record is found the way the Health Department’s own notes for the dataset set out: take the re-inspections and reopening inspections, and the initial inspections that scored 13 or less, keep those carrying a grade of A, B, C or a Grade Pending code, and use the newest. An initial inspection that scores 14 or more is not graded, so a restaurant’s latest grade can be older than its latest inspection.

A record opens from its own address too: /nyc/inspections/#r= followed by the city’s permit number (CAMIS). 1,512 of the 1,748 restaurants on THE TABLE, the guide’s restaurant register, carry that number. The 1,505 the dataset still held when it was read on 29 September 2026 have a “Health inspections” button on their sheet there, and a record that belongs to one of them links back to its row; the other 7 are no longer in the dataset, which keeps only restaurants in active status.

Method

What this lookup reads, and what it does not

Every search on this page is answered by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s public dataset, DOHMH New York City Restaurant Inspection Results (NYC Open Data, dataset 43nn-pn8j), which your browser reads straight from https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/43nn-pn8j.json at the moment you press Search. Nothing is copied here in between. Fetched: the establishments that match, how many there are, the latest grades of the 25 shown, and every row of a record you open. Computed here: the grouping of rows into inspections, the counts of inspections and violations, and the latest grade by the Health Department’s own rule above.

When this page was built, on 29 September 2026, the dataset held 295,568 rows for 31,376 establishments. Its newest inspection was dated 25 September 2026 and its extract was dated 28 September 2026. 3,800 of those establishments had applied for a permit and had not yet been inspected.

The dataset covers restaurants and college cafeterias that are in active status on the day of the extract, and their inspections for up to three years before the most recent one. A restaurant that has gone out of business is removed, so a place you remember may simply not be there. The cuisine list in the form holds the 90 cuisine descriptions that were in the data on 29 September 2026; the description is an optional field the owner or manager supplies.

Limits you should know

  • The city updates the dataset daily, and it still runs behind the inspectors: what you see is the extract, not this morning’s visit.
  • Scores are revised when a hearing changes them, and a violation dismissed at a hearing is removed from the data. A record can therefore change after the fact.
  • The department warns that the data is compiled from several administrative systems, holds some illogical values and can be missing values, and that a score and a grade do not always agree.
  • When a re-inspection ends in a B or a C the restaurant is given that grade card and a Grade Pending card, and the data cannot tell which of the two is in the window.
  • The borough and the ZIP code of one establishment can disagree, because a mailing address and a physical location can differ.
  • The name search matches any part of the registered business name. It does not correct spelling.
  • The city’s data service limits how often one network may ask without a key. If it refuses, this page says so and offers to try again; it never shows a stored answer instead.

Licence, and what you type

The dataset’s metadata states no licence, and none is claimed here; the city’s terms of use for its sites are listed below. What you type — a name, a ZIP code, a borough, a cuisine — goes only to data.cityofnewyork.us, as the query itself, sent without cookies or a referrer. Nothing is stored on labs.llc, and the site’s analytics receive the page’s address, never what you typed.

The city’s own lookup is the authority. ABCEats is the Health Department’s restaurant inspection lookup and comes from the same source as the dataset. Where this page and ABCEats, or the card in a restaurant’s window, disagree, the city is right. This page reports public records; it gives no advice about where to eat. The borough-by-borough count of latest grades is on restaurant grades by borough; for choosing a table rather than reading a record, the lookup belongs to the New York City guide.

Sources

  1. DOHMH New York City Restaurant Inspection Results, NYC Open Data (dataset 43nn-pn8j). https://data.cityofnewyork.us/Health/DOHMH-New-York-City-Restaurant-Inspection-Results/43nn-pn8j. Read 28 September 2026.
  2. “About NYC Restaurant Inspection Data on NYC OpenData”, the Health Department’s notes attached to the dataset (file dated 2 May 2022). https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/43nn-pn8j/files/0658bb14-1b0a-4fc6-b389-d42ae6e9d3be?download=true&filename=About_NYC_Restaurant_Inspection_Data_on_NYC_OpenData_050222.docx. Read 28 September 2026.
  3. Restaurant Inspection Data Dictionary, attached to the dataset (file dated 24 September 2018). https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/43nn-pn8j/files/ec33d2c8-81f5-499a-a238-0213a38239cd?download=true&filename=RestaurantInspectionDataDictionary_09242018.xlsx. Read 28 September 2026.
  4. NYC Health, “Food Establishment Inspections”, which links to ABCEats. https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/services/restaurant-grades.page. Read 28 September 2026.
  5. City of New York, “Terms of Use” (nyc.gov). https://www.nyc.gov/main/terms-of-use. Read 28 September 2026.