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El Cortez Employee Dining Room
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score10 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJune 16, 2026
- address600 Fremont St, Las Vegas 89101
Is El Cortez Employee Dining Room clean?
El Cortez Employee Dining Room is currently Grade A from Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD), from an inspection on June 16, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at El Cortez Employee Dining Room?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 16, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️TCS food at proper temperatures.criticalTCS food at proper temperatures.
- ⚠️Small wares approved, properly designed, in good repair.Small wares approved, properly designed, in good repair.
- ⚠️Signs and certifications as required.Signs and certifications as required.
- ⚠️Physical facility in sound condition and maintained.Physical facility in sound condition and maintained.
- ⚠️Food wholesomecriticalFood wholesome
When was El Cortez Employee Dining Room last inspected?
El Cortez Employee Dining Room has 6 inspections on record going back to June 30, 2021, averaging 7 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 16, 2026 | Grade A | 10 pts |
| June 17, 2025 | Grade A | 3 pts |
| May 21, 2024 | Grade A | 9 pts |
| May 8, 2023 | Grade A | 8 pts |
| June 7, 2022 | Grade A | 9 pts |
| June 30, 2021 | Grade A | 3 pts |
El Cortez Employee Dining Room vs Las Vegas
Las Vegas runs 99% clean across 12,052 tracked restaurants — 11,121 clean, 111 mid, 33 cooked.
Against the 12,052 spots Cooked tracks in Las Vegas, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 June 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.