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Breakaway Cafe
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score92 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJanuary 27, 2026
- address8686 Washington Blvd, Culver City 90232
Is Breakaway Cafe clean?
Breakaway Cafe is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on January 27, 2026. 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 Breakaway Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 27, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLINGIMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
- ⚠️WIPING CLOTHS: PROPERLY USED AND STOREDWIPING CLOTHS: PROPERLY USED AND STORED
- ⚠️PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATUREScriticalPROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITYEQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
- ⚠️PREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFINGPREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFING
- ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEANNON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
When was Breakaway Cafe last inspected?
Breakaway Cafe has 2 inspections on record going back to October 3, 2023, averaging 92 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 27, 2026 | Grade A | 92 pts |
| October 3, 2023 | Grade A | 91 pts |
Breakaway Cafe vs Regent Square
Regent Square runs 96% clean across 94 tracked restaurants — 90 clean, 3 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 94 spots Cooked tracks in Regent Square, this one comes out cleaner than 23% of them.
Other spots in Regent Square
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 January 27, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.