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Salads · Lower East Side, Manhattan

Salad Don

88 Essex Street, Manhattan 10002 · 9174121794

C NYC grade
48 Clean Score
28 Inspection score
Sep 24, 2025 Last inspection

Currently on the watch list — recent inspection flagged elevated risk.

Most recent inspection

Pre-permit (Operational) / Re-inspection

Inspection history

Sep 24, 2025 · Grade C · Score 28

Pre-permit (Operational) / Re-inspection

  • 06A — Personal cleanliness is inadequate. Outer garment soiled with possible contaminant. Effective hair restraint not worn where required. Jewelry worn on hands or arms. Fingernail polish worn or fingernails not kept clean and trimmed. (critical)
  • 10H — 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. (critical)
  • 04L — Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas. (critical)
  • 06C — 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)
  • 08A — Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests. (critical)
Jul 29, 2025 · Grade N/A · Score 32

Pre-permit (Operational) / Initial Inspection

  • 04L — Evidence of mice or live mice in establishment's food or non-food areas. (critical)
  • 08A — Establishment is not free of harborage or conditions conducive to rodents, insects or other pests. (critical)
  • 28-06 — Contract with a pest management professional not in place. Record of extermination activities not kept on premises. (critical)
  • 06F — Wiping cloths not stored clean and dry, or in a sanitizing solution, between uses. (critical)
  • 06C — 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)
  • 04N — 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)

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