Black Bear Diner

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score90 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedDecember 22, 2025
• address23626 Valencia Blvd, Santa Clarita 91355

Is Black Bear Diner clean?

Black Bear Diner is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on December 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 Black Bear Diner?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATUREScritical
  PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
• ⚠️PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
  PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
• ⚠️PREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFING
  PREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFING
• ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
  NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
• ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
  FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
• ⚠️FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
  FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
• ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
  IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING

When was Black Bear Diner last inspected?

Black Bear Diner has 3 inspections on record going back to March 29, 2024, averaging 92 points.

Black Bear Diner vs City Of Santa Clarita

City Of Santa Clarita runs 96% clean across 570 tracked restaurants — 545 clean, 22 mid, 3 cooked.

Against the 570 spots Cooked tracks in City Of Santa Clarita, this one comes out cleaner than 4% of them.

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How Los Angeles grades restaurants

Los Angeles County posts a letter placard in the window, and unlike New York the score runs the friendly way: higher is better. 90 to 100 points earns an A, 80 to 89 a B, and anything below that a C. The county inspects roughly every six months to a year depending on risk, and a failed inspection can close a kitchen until it is fixed. Because LA’s scores are final at the time of inspection — there is no pending window — a letter can be read straight off the score when the placard field is blank.

Source: LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health via LA County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily — this listing's most recent inspection is dated December 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.