• gradeGrade A
• inspection score8 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 12, 2025 →
• address9002 W Sahara Ave, Las Vegas 89117

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Is Cafe Rio Sahara clean?

Cafe Rio Sahara is currently Grade A from Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD), from an inspection on August 12, 2025. 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 Rio Sahara?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 12, 2025, 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.
• ⚠️Nonfood contact surfaces and equipment properly constructed, installed, maintained, and clean.
• ⚠️TCS food at proper temperatures.critical
• ⚠️Personal cleanliness maintained. Personal effects properly stored.
• ⚠️Physical facility in sound condition and maintained.
• ⚠️Utensils, equipment, linens, single-service/single-use items properly handled, stored, and dispensed.

When was Cafe Rio Sahara last inspected?

Cafe Rio Sahara has 9 inspections on record going back to April 1, 2021, averaging 7 points.

Cafe Rio Sahara vs Las Vegas

Las Vegas runs 99% clean across 12,053 tracked restaurants — 11,120 clean, 127 mid, 26 cooked.

Against the 12,053 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 August 12, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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