Cooked?Black Heart Coffee
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score97 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedAugust 26, 2025 →
- address7131 Balboa Blvd, Van Nuys 91406
Is Black Heart Coffee clean?
Black Heart Coffee is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on August 26, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Black Heart Coffee?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 26, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🚻bathroom issues# 43. PREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFING
- ⚠️# 46. SIGNS POSTED; LAST INSPECTION REPORT AVAILABLE
- ⚠️# 42. TOILET FACILITIES: PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED, SUPPLIED, CLEANED
When was Black Heart Coffee last inspected?
Black Heart Coffee has 2 inspections on record going back to March 9, 2024, averaging 98 points.
August 26, 2025 A
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View full inspection →Black Heart Coffee vs Lake Balboa
Lake Balboa runs 98% clean across 173 tracked restaurants — 170 clean, 3 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 173 spots Cooked tracks in Lake Balboa, this one comes out cleaner than 64% 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.
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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily, but the authority publishes in batches, so a recent visit may not appear yet. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.
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 August 26, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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