Novacane Restaurant & Bar

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score91 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedMarch 7, 2026 →
• address5812 S Santa Fe Ave, Huntington Park 90058

Is Novacane Restaurant & Bar clean?

Novacane Restaurant & Bar is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on March 7, 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 Novacane Restaurant & Bar?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 7, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcritical
• ⚠️EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
• ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
• ⚠️PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
• ⚠️ADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USE
• ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN

When was Novacane Restaurant & Bar last inspected?

Novacane Restaurant & Bar has 5 inspections on record going back to September 22, 2023, averaging 88 points.

Novacane Restaurant & Bar vs Vernon Central

Vernon Central runs 90% clean across 264 tracked restaurants — 238 clean, 20 mid, 6 cooked.

Against the 264 spots Cooked tracks in Vernon Central, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 March 7, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.

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