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Cognoscenti Coffee
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score90 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedSeptember 24, 2025
- address6114 Washington Blvd, Culver City 90232
Is Cognoscenti Coffee clean?
Cognoscenti Coffee is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on September 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 Cognoscenti Coffee?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 24, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATIONFOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcriticalFOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ⚠️NO INSECTS, RODENTS, BIRDS OR ANIMALS PRESENTNO INSECTS, RODENTS, BIRDS OR ANIMALS PRESENT
- ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEANNON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITYEQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
When was Cognoscenti Coffee last inspected?
Cognoscenti Coffee has 3 inspections on record going back to July 21, 2023, averaging 90 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 24, 2025 | Grade A | 90 pts |
| December 17, 2024 | Grade B | 81 pts |
| July 21, 2023 | Grade A | 98 pts |
Cognoscenti Coffee 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 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 September 24, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.