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Cardenas Market #27 Restaurant
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score8 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 22, 2025
- address4500 E Tropicana Ave, Las Vegas 89121
Is Cardenas Market #27 Restaurant clean?
Cardenas Market #27 Restaurant is currently Grade A from Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD), from an inspection on July 22, 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 Cardenas Market #27 Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 22, 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.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.Nonfood contact surfaces and equipment properly constructed, installed, maintained, and clean.
- ⚠️Physical facility in sound condition and maintained.Physical facility in sound condition and maintained.
- ⚠️Small wares approved, properly designed, in good repair.Small wares approved, properly designed, in good repair.
- ⚠️TCS food at proper temperatures.criticalTCS food at proper temperatures.
When was Cardenas Market #27 Restaurant last inspected?
Cardenas Market #27 Restaurant has 12 inspections on record going back to June 15, 2021, averaging 10 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 22, 2025 | Grade A | 8 pts |
| January 30, 2025 | Grade A | 5 pts |
| January 21, 2025 | Grade B | 14 pts |
| July 10, 2024 | Grade A | 8 pts |
| March 20, 2024 | Grade A | 6 pts |
| March 14, 2024 | Grade C | 27 pts |
| March 5, 2024 | Grade B | 16 pts |
| August 11, 2023 | Grade A | 0 pts |
| August 8, 2023 | Grade B | 16 pts |
| June 10, 2022 | Grade A | 3 pts |
| June 3, 2022 | Grade B | 8 pts |
| June 15, 2021 | Grade A | 9 pts |
Cardenas Market #27 Restaurant vs Henderson
Henderson runs 98% clean across 2,529 tracked restaurants — 2,333 clean, 32 mid, 6 cooked.
Against the 2,529 spots Cooked tracks in Henderson, this one comes out cleaner than 10% 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 July 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.