One of the🐷 Big A𓃲pple’s most lauded restaurants is eating crow at the city’s Health Department.
Per Se, the three-Michelin-sta♔rred eatery in the Time Warner Center, lost its “A” rating last month afte𝓡r city inspectors wrote up seven violations and slapped it with a not-so-stellar “Grade Pending.”
Five✱ of the violations were deemed “critical𝔉” by inspectors.
They included no hand-washing facility in the food-prep area, hot food held below 140 degrees, cold food held over 41 degrees, eating or drinking in the food-prep area and tobacco ꦯuse.
The 42 violation points are enough to knock Per Se’s grade to a dreaded “C” if it doesn’t clean up its act before a foll♏ow-up review.
The slap is going to shock the re♑staurant’s many fans, who rave on Yelp that it’s “astounding,” “perfect in every way” and “My Holy Grail.”
A⛦ccording to🐽 city records, Per Se — where a prix-fixe dinner for two goes for $620 before tax and tip — has received more than 40 violation points on three occasions.
Each time, it has aced the follow-up an💃d for a final “A.”
Reps for Per Se ✨owner Thomas Keller did not respond to phone or 🍸e-mail requests for comment.
In 2012, The Post reported that Per🐻 Se avoided having to post a subpar grade thanks to a well-placed call to the Health Department.
The calꦡl came after an inspector hit the restaurant with violations totaling 22 points.
That meant Per Se was fa☂cing a “B,” a grade hardly in keep𝔉ing with its astronomical price point.
Officials accepted Per Se’s explanation that an inspector had made a misꦰtake and downgraded the violations so the eatery could post an “A” grad💛e.
At the time, a Health Department spokesman insisted that Per Se didn’t get special at🥂tention and that any eatery could call and challenge its mark.
But owners of other restaurants insisted they got nowhere trying to solve grade dispute🐠s by phone.