Cucina Italian Tavern
331 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan, NY 10027
Failed re-check · Jun 16, 2025 Directions
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How the BiteKarma score works
Each routine inspection starts at 100 and loses 7 points for every critical violation and 2 for every other one, half again as much when the same problem was cited at one of the two inspections before. A failed inspection counts as 69 at most. The score averages the five newest routine inspections, with the most recent counting most, and stays below 70 for 90 days after a fail unless the restaurant passes again. 90 and up is excellent, 80s good, 70s fair, and below 70 poor.
At a glance
- Keeps coming up: Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored, cited 2 times, plus 1 other repeat issue.
- Passed 0 of 2 graded inspections since 2025.
- Last inspected Jun 16, 2025: failed with 5 violations, 3 critical. That was over a year ago, so things may have changed.
- 9 critical violations in the last two years.
Inspection history 2 visits
- 2025
- Failed Jun 16
Pre-permit (Operational)
5 violations, 3 critical
- Critical Wiping cloths not stored clean and dry, or in a sanitizing solution, between uses
- Critical 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
- Critical Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored
- Minor Single-service article not provided. Single-service article reused or not protected from contamination when transported, stored, dispensed. Drinking straws not completely enclosed in wrapper or dispensed from a sanitary device
- Minor Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests
- Failed Apr 7
Pre-permit (Operational)
9 violations, 6 critical
- Critical Evidence of rats or live rats in establishment's food or non-food areas
- Critical Food, supplies, or equipment not protected from potential source of contamination during storage, preparation, transportation, display, service or from customer's refillable, reusable container. Condiments not in single-service containers or dispensed directly by the vendor
- Critical Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas
- Critical Sanitized equipment or utensil, including in-use food dispensing utensil, improperly used or stored
- Critical Hot TCS food item not held at or above 140°F
- Critical Food-contact surface not properly washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any activity when contamination may have occurred
- Minor Anti-siphonage or back-flow prevention device not provided where required; equipment or floor not properly drained; sewage disposal system in disrepair or not functioning properly. Condensation or liquid waste improperly disposed of
- Minor Mechanical or natural ventilation not provided, inadequate, improperly installed, in disrepair or fails to prevent and control excessive build-up of grease, heat, steam condensation, vapors, odors, smoke or fumes
- Minor Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests
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