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Cafe Express
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score8 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedMay 5, 2026
- address2521 S Fort Apache Rd 100, Las Vegas 89117
Is Cafe Express clean?
Cafe Express is currently Grade A from Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD), from an inspection on May 5, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Cafe Express?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 5, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food contact surfaces of equipment properly cleaned and sanitized. Sanitizer solution provided and maintained as required.Food contact surfaces of equipment properly cleaned and sanitized. Sanitizer solution provided and maintained as required.
- ⚠️TCS food properly cooled.criticalTCS food properly cooled.
When was Cafe Express last inspected?
Cafe Express has 13 inspections on record going back to January 29, 2021, averaging 10 points. The 12 most recent are shown below.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2026 | Grade A | 8 pts |
| April 16, 2026 | Grade B | 17 pts |
| June 12, 2025 | Grade A | 3 pts |
| May 21, 2025 | Grade C | 31 pts |
| October 10, 2024 | Grade A | 8 pts |
| September 26, 2024 | Grade B | 17 pts |
| January 23, 2024 | Grade A | 0 pts |
| January 16, 2024 | Grade B | 18 pts |
| September 5, 2023 | Grade A | 6 pts |
| February 13, 2023 | Grade A | 0 pts |
| February 6, 2023 | Grade B | 17 pts |
| March 9, 2022 | Grade A | 0 pts |
Cafe Express vs Las Vegas
Las Vegas runs 99% clean across 12,050 tracked restaurants — 11,124 clean, 107 mid, 31 cooked.
Against the 12,050 spots Cooked tracks in Las Vegas, this one comes out cleaner than 9% of them.
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How Las Vegas grades restaurants
The Southern Nevada Health District grades on demerits, and here more is worse: roughly 0–10 demerits earns an A, 11–20 a B, and 21 or more a C. Serious problems can skip the ladder entirely — an imminent health hazard gets the permit suspended and the kitchen shut on the spot, which shows up as a closure rather than a letter. SNHD covers all of Clark County, so Henderson, North Las Vegas and the unincorporated Strip all run the same scheme. Cooked reads A as clean, B as mid, C or a closure as cooked.
Source: Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) via SNHD Restaurant Inspections. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated May 5, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.