Boucherie West Village is the kind of restaurant that makes you want to speak in italics — a 320-seat French brasserie and steakhouse in the former Circle Repertory Theater space on 7th Avenue South, with a butcher counter, a second-floor gallery, an outdoor café, absinthe drinks, A5 Japanese wagyu, and a 4.7 on OpenTable. It gets booked 100+ times a day and hosts prix fixe brunches for $75 a head. It is also, as of a March 31, 2026 re-inspection by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, back on the health inspection list — mice, live roaches, damaged canned goods, and harborage conditions, totaling 13 points.
What the Re-Inspection Found
The March 31 visit was a re-inspection, meaning inspectors had already been there and cited problems, then returned to check the follow-up. The initial inspection was on November 17, 2025, where the West Village location scored 18 points — a technical B grade — with evidence of mice, harborage conditions, food not protected from contamination, and non-food contact surfaces in unacceptable condition.
According to records in the NYC DOHMH ABCEats inspection database, the March 31 re-inspection produced four violations totaling 13 points — technically within the A-grade threshold in New York’s scoring system, where anything under 14 earns an A. But the specific violations are not what you’d hope for: evidence of mice or live mice in food or non-food areas (critical), live roaches in food or non-food areas (critical), harborage conditions (not critical), and swollen, leaking, or otherwise damaged canned food not properly segregated and labeled (not critical). Mice on the November visit, mice and roaches on the March re-inspection. The letter grade may technically be an A. The pest picture is something else.
Part of a Broader Restaurant Group With Its Own Inspection Story
Boucherie West Village is one of several properties operated by The Group, a hospitality company whose NYC portfolio includes La Grande Boucherie at 1325 Avenue of the Americas, Boucherie Union Square at 225 Park Avenue South, and Petite Boucherie at 14 Christopher Street, among others. The company describes itself as crafting “authentic spaces where centuries-old French, Italian and Japanese culture meet American metropolis,” per its website…