Cerveteca Taco & Torta Joint

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score91 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedOctober 24, 2025
• address9418 Venice Blvd, Culver City 90232

Is Cerveteca Taco & Torta Joint clean?

Cerveteca Taco & Torta Joint is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 24, 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 Cerveteca Taco & Torta Joint?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 24, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
  EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
• ⚠️TOILET FACILITIES: PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED, SUPPLIED, CLEANED
  TOILET FACILITIES: PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED, SUPPLIED, CLEANED
• ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
  IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
• ⚠️PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATUREScritical
  PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
• ⚠️TOXIC SUBSTANCES PROPERLY IDENTIFIED, STORED, AND USED
  TOXIC SUBSTANCES PROPERLY IDENTIFIED, STORED, AND USED
• ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
  EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
• ⚠️PREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFING
  PREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFING

When was Cerveteca Taco & Torta Joint last inspected?

Cerveteca Taco & Torta Joint has 2 inspections on record going back to February 26, 2024, averaging 93 points.

Cerveteca Taco & Torta Joint vs Palms

Palms runs 94% clean across 264 tracked restaurants — 249 clean, 14 mid, 1 cooked.

Against the 264 spots Cooked tracks in Palms, this one comes out cleaner than 22% 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 October 24, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.