Cooked?The Nickel Mine
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score83 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJanuary 28, 2026 →
- address11363 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles 90025
Is The Nickel Mine clean?
The Nickel Mine is currently Grade B from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on January 28, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at The Nickel Mine?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 28, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcritical
- ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
- ⚠️MULTIPLE MAJOR CRITICAL VIOLATIONS / INCREASED RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTH
- ⚠️WAREWASHING FACILITIES: INSTALLED, MAINTAINED; USED; TEST EQUIPMENT
- ⚠️PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATUREScritical
- ⚠️PREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFING
- ⚠️HOT AND COLD WATER AVAILABLE
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
- ⚠️PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
When was The Nickel Mine last inspected?
The Nickel Mine has 3 inspections on record going back to August 16, 2023, averaging 88 points.
January 28, 2026 B
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View full inspection →October 23, 2024 A
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View full inspection →August 16, 2023 A
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View full inspection →The Nickel Mine vs West Los Angeles
West Los Angeles runs 95% clean across 539 tracked restaurants — 513 clean, 22 mid, 4 cooked.
Against the 539 spots Cooked tracks in West Los Angeles, this one comes out cleaner than 3% 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 January 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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