Cooked is a free, account-less app that shows you New York City restaurant health-inspection grades. Point your camera down a block and the grades float over the storefronts in front of you, or search and browse on a map. Clean, mid, and cooked map to NYC's official A, B, and C letter grades.
the quick answers — grades, the camera scan, your privacy, and where we work.
We don't calculate them. Grades come straight from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), which gives each restaurant an A, B, or C letter grade based on its inspection score. Cooked simply shows you that public data: an A reads as clean, a B as mid, and a C as cooked. Because the underlying data can lag, always verify with the official NYC source before relying on a grade.
The camera overlay depends on your phone's GPS and compass, and both can drift — especially among tall buildings. Hold the phone up and move it slowly in a figure-8 to recalibrate the compass, give the GPS a moment to settle, and make sure location and camera permissions are allowed. The scan needs a real device with a camera and motion sensors; it won't work in a simulator.
Yes. Cooked has no accounts and never collects your name or email. Your camera feed stays on your device, and your saved spots are stored locally. See the Privacy Policy for the full details.
NYC only at launch. The data comes from New York City's open health-inspection records, so coverage is the five boroughs.
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