Grade BCoffee/Tea

Roast

250 EAST 40 STREET, Manhattan, 10016

Should you eat here?

Caution — pest-related violations found across multiple inspections, including the latest (10 months ago).

Last inspected Sep 11, 2025 · New York City health department

What the inspector found on Sep 11, 2025

  • Signs of pests (like mice, rats, roaches, or flies) or conditions that could attract them.

    Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas.

    Critical
  • Signs of pests (like mice, rats, roaches, or flies) or conditions that could attract them.

    Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests.

  • An issue with how food is prepared, protected, or handled during service.

    Food, prohibited, from unapproved or unknown source, home canned or home prepared. Animal slaughtered, butchered or dressed (eviscerated, skinned) in establishment. Reduced Oxygen Packaged (ROP) fish not frozen before processing. ROP food prepared on premises transported to another site.

    Critical

Inspection history

DateResultTypeViolations
Sep 11, 2025Grade BCycle Inspection / Re-inspection3 (2 critical)
Jul 28, 2025Grade PendingCycle Inspection / Initial Inspection10 (4 critical)
Mar 25, 2025Grade BPre-permit (Operational) / Re-inspection6 (3 critical)
Feb 25, 2025Grade PendingPre-permit (Operational) / Initial Inspection7 (3 critical)

Problems that keep coming back

Issues cited at more than one inspection — a better signal than any single visit.

  • 4×Signs of pests (like mice, rats, roaches, or flies) or conditions that could attract them.
  • 4×Signs of pests (like mice, rats, roaches, or flies) or conditions that could attract them.
  • 3×Food was not kept hot or cold enough. Wrong temperatures let bacteria grow.
  • 3×A staff hygiene issue, such as handwashing, glove use, or bare-hand contact with food.
  • 2×An issue with how food is prepared, protected, or handled during service.

Around this address

City records for the building itself, not this restaurant’s inspection.

  • 9 rodent inspections on record, 1 finding rat activity.
  • 1 recent 311 complaint filed at this address.

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