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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 SANITIZEDcriticalFOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USEEQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEANFLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️ADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USEADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USE
- ⚠️PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGEPLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
- ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEANNON-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.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 7, 2026 | Grade A | 91 pts |
| February 27, 2026 | no grade issued ⏳ | 67 pts |
| April 3, 2025 | Grade A | 91 pts |
| December 6, 2024 | Grade A | 97 pts |
| September 22, 2023 | Grade A | 92 pts |
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.
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.