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El Cortez Siegel 1941 Restaurant
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score8 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedSeptember 19, 2025
- address600 Fremont St, Las Vegas 89101
Is El Cortez Siegel 1941 Restaurant clean?
El Cortez Siegel 1941 Restaurant is currently Grade A from Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD), from an inspection on September 19, 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 El Cortez Siegel 1941 Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️Food protected from potential cross-contamination.Food protected from potential cross-contamination.
- ⚠️Food wholesomecriticalFood wholesome
- ⚠️Nonfood contact surfaces and equipment properly constructed, installed, maintained, and clean.Nonfood contact surfaces and equipment properly constructed, installed, maintained, and clean.
- ⚠️Personal cleanliness maintained. Personal effects properly stored.Personal cleanliness maintained. Personal effects properly stored.
When was El Cortez Siegel 1941 Restaurant last inspected?
El Cortez Siegel 1941 Restaurant has 11 inspections on record going back to February 10, 2021, averaging 10 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 19, 2025 | Grade A | 8 pts |
| April 8, 2025 | Grade A | 0 pts |
| April 2, 2025 | Grade B | 16 pts |
| August 27, 2024 | Grade A | 8 pts |
| February 22, 2024 | Grade A | 0 pts |
| February 16, 2024 | Grade C | 30 pts |
| April 7, 2023 | Grade A | 0 pts |
| March 13, 2023 | Grade B | 19 pts |
| May 12, 2022 | Grade A | 6 pts |
| May 10, 2022 | Grade B | 16 pts |
| February 10, 2021 | Grade A | 8 pts |
El Cortez Siegel 1941 Restaurant vs Las Vegas
Las Vegas runs 99% clean across 12,052 tracked restaurants — 11,126 clean, 107 mid, 32 cooked.
Against the 12,052 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 September 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.