To check a Westchester County restaurant, search the state’s Food Service Establishment Inspections records on Health Data NY. The county Health Department points to that dataset to view its inspection reports online. In the 12 months from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2026, Westchester inspectors found at least one critical violation in 414 of 2,767 routine restaurant inspections (15.0%). The average for New York State outside New York City was 27.1%.
Clean reports were rare, though. Just 164 of those inspections (5.9%) found no violation of any kind, because maintenance and cleanliness items show up on most Westchester reports. All figures are our counts from the state dataset (rows updated October 22, 2026, inspections through October 16).
| Westchester County, routine restaurant inspections | Count | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Inspections, Oct 2025 to Sep 2026 | 2,767 | 100% |
| Restaurants inspected | 2,250 | |
| At least one critical violation | 414 | 15.0% |
| Two or more critical violations | 175 | 6.3% |
| Critical item left uncorrected at the visit | 8 | 0.3% |
| No violations of any kind | 164 | 5.9% |
| Critical inspections with a return visit within 60 days | 277 | 66.9% |
How often Westchester inspects a restaurant, and what critical means
The county’s Eating Out page ties the schedule to risk. High-risk places, meaning full-service, dine-in restaurants that prepare and cook large quantities of raw food on site, are generally inspected twice a year. Medium-risk places, which serve mostly commercially prepared food, such as fast-food chains, and low-risk places with little or no preparation, such as ice cream shops and bars, get one inspection a year. In the data, 21.3% of the 2,250 restaurants inspected had two or more routine inspections in the 12 months.
The same page defines a critical violation as one related directly to factors that can lead to foodborne illness, and a non-critical violation as one about maintenance and cleanliness. Critical violations are corrected during the inspection, and non-critical ones get a re-inspection date. The records match that rule: 8 of the 2,767 inspections show a critical item left uncorrected.
How to find a Westchester restaurant on Health Data NY
- Open Food Service Establishment Inspections: Beginning 2005 and switch to the table view.
- Filter County to WESTCHESTER, then search the restaurant’s name.
- Confirm the street address and city. Chain names and similar names repeat across villages.
- Read one inspection date at a time. Each violation is its own row, and the totals for critical, uncorrected critical and non-critical violations repeat on every row for that date.
- Check the inspection type. Routine visits are typed Inspection, and follow-up visits are typed Re-Inspection.
The dataset lists establishments that are currently operating, so a restaurant that closed drops out. For a copy of a full report, send a written request to the Records Access Office, Westchester County Department of Health, 11 Martine Avenue, 12th Floor, White Plains, NY 10606, as its FOIL and records requests page describes.
Why few Westchester reports are clean: floors, equipment and handwashing sinks
Westchester routine inspections averaged 5.7 non-critical violations each. Floors, walls or ceilings in disrepair or dirty (item 15A) were written in 1,470 inspections (53.1%), and poorly designed or maintained non-food-contact equipment (10B) in 1,447 (52.3%). Food not protected in storage or service (8A) appeared in 1,154 (41.7%) and dirty non-food-contact surfaces (11D) in 793 (28.7%). Handwashing sinks that were blocked, dirty or short of soap or towels (12E) turned up in 725 (26.2%).
Insects or rodents (item 14A) were recorded in 556 routine inspections (20.1%). New York’s code classes 14A as non-critical, so a report can list pests next to a critical count of zero. To see pest findings for one restaurant, search its rows for item 14A.
The critical violations Westchester inspectors write most
Critical items, counted once per routine inspection:
| Item | What it covers | Inspections | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5C | Risky food left out of refrigeration | 91 | 3.3% |
| 2E | No accurate thermometer in use | 81 | 2.9% |
| 5E | Not enough working refrigeration | 69 | 2.5% |
| 5A | Cold-held food above 45°F | 63 | 2.3% |
| 2C | Ready-to-eat food exposed to raw food | 61 | 2.2% |
| 6A | Hot-held food below 140°F | 61 | 2.2% |
Four of the six are about holding food at a safe temperature.
Westchester restaurant inspection results by city
Places with at least 50 routine restaurant inspections, sorted by the share with a critical violation:
| City | Inspections | 1+ critical | 2+ critical |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Kisco | 65 | 36.9% | 15.4% |
| Ossining | 83 | 36.1% | 18.1% |
| Peekskill | 77 | 29.9% | 10.4% |
| Tarrytown | 77 | 22.1% | 9.1% |
| Yorktown Heights | 54 | 20.4% | 5.6% |
| Hartsdale | 50 | 20.0% | 8.0% |
| Mamaroneck | 106 | 19.8% | 15.1% |
| White Plains | 266 | 18.0% | 6.0% |
| Scarsdale | 97 | 17.5% | 11.3% |
| Port Chester | 65 | 15.4% | 4.6% |
| Pleasantville | 68 | 14.7% | 5.9% |
| New Rochelle | 235 | 14.5% | 9.8% |
| Mount Vernon | 95 | 11.6% | 2.1% |
| Yonkers | 349 | 8.0% | 3.4% |
| Rye | 97 | 5.2% | 3.1% |
| Larchmont | 59 | 5.1% | 0.0% |
| Bronxville | 59 | 5.1% | 5.1% |
The city is the mailing city in the record, which can differ from the village or town. Yonkers had the most inspections in the county and one of the lowest critical rates. Rates for smaller places rest on 50 to 100 inspections, so a few visits can move them by several points.
What happens after a Westchester critical violation
277 of the 414 critical inspections (66.9%) have another recorded visit within 60 days, at a median of 8 days, and 87.7% of those visits found no critical violation. After two or more critical items, the return rate rises to 82.9%. Return rates differ widely across the state, for example 97.8% in Monroe County and 3.2% in Saratoga County; our New York State inspection results by county compares every health department. Nearby, Rockland County returned after 56.0% and Dutchess County after 67.0%.
Westchester’s critical findings also recur less often than the state’s. Across back-to-back routine inspections from October 2024 to September 2026, the second visit found a critical violation again in 29.4% of the 579 pairs that started with one, against 12.4% of the 2,369 pairs that started without. Statewide outside New York City, the figures were 46.4% and 20.7%. The same item code came back in 14.0% of the first group. A critical item on both of a restaurant’s last two routine visits is the pattern worth noticing.
Westchester’s food allergy law: what to look for on the wall
Westchester’s Food Allergy Restaurant Safety Law (Chapter 541) took effect November 9, 2022. As the county’s Food Safety on the Job page explains, restaurants must post allergen signs in English and Spanish at the front, where customers see them, and in the back, where food handlers see them. They must also designate staff trained in an approved allergen course.
- A restaurant with seating needs at least one trained person in the kitchen and one in the dining room during all hours of operation.
- A take-out-only restaurant needs at least one trained person in the kitchen.
- The posted sign shows how many trained staff the restaurant has.
- Approved courses include ServSafe Food Allergen, StateFoodSafety, AllerTrain and FARECheck.
If you have a food allergy, the sign by the door tells you the restaurant has trained staff to ask.
How we counted Westchester inspections
Unit: one inspection, meaning one operation ID, date and inspection type, for permits typed Restaurant, Food Service Establishment, Restaurant/Catering Operation or Tavern under the Westchester County health department. Delis, schools, caterers and institutions are excluded. Routine inspections are rows typed Inspection; re-inspections count only as follow-up visits, using records through October 16, 2026. Violation shares count each item once per inspection. Restaurants that closed during the year are missing from the data.
To report a food complaint or suspected foodborne illness, call the Westchester County Department of Health at (914) 813-5000. Supermarkets and convenience stores fall under the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, (800) 554-4501. For Long Island, see our Nassau County inspection results, and for what a failed inspection leads to in other cities, see what happens if a restaurant fails a health inspection.
Westchester County Department of Health pages and state dataset checked October 25, 2026.