La Cantina

326 E 8th St, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Passed · Jan 27, 2026 Directions
78
Fair BiteKarma score 78 out of 100
How the BiteKarma score works

Each routine inspection starts at 100 and loses 7 points for every critical violation and 2 for every other one, half again as much when the same problem was cited at one of the two inspections before. A failed inspection counts as 69 at most. The score averages the five newest routine inspections, with the most recent counting most, and stays below 70 for 90 days after a fail unless the restaurant passes again. 90 and up is excellent, 80s good, 70s fair, and below 70 poor.

At a glance

  • Passed 4 of 4 graded inspections since 2024.
  • Last inspected Jan 27, 2026: passed with 2 violations, 1 critical.
  • Keeps coming up: Time/Temperature Controlled Safety Food - Ready-to-eat, TCS - date marking, cited 2 times, plus 5 other repeat issues.
  • 4 critical violations in the last two years.

Inspection history 4 visits

  1. 2026
  2. Passed Jan 27

    Routine Inspection

    2 violations, 1 critical
    • Critical Time/Temperature Controlled Safety Food - Ready-to-eat, TCS - date marking
    • Minor Sanitizing solutions - Testing Devices
  3. 2025
  4. Passed Dec 18

    Routine Inspection

    8 violations, 2 critical
    • Critical Employee Health - Written Procedures for Cleaning Up Vomiting and Diarrheal Events
    • Critical Time/Temperature Controlled Safety Food - Ready-to-eat, TCS - date marking
    • Minor Food Storage Containers - Identified with Common Name of Food
    • Minor Floors, walls, and ceilings
    • Minor Sanitizing solutions - Testing Devices
    • Minor Warewashing equipment: Determining Chemical Sanitizer Concentration
    • Minor Covering Receptacles
    • Minor Single-Service Articles and Single-Use Articles - Storage
  5. Passed Feb 6

    Routine Inspection

    5 violations, 1 critical
    • Critical Time/Temperature Controlled Safety Food - Ready-to-eat, TCS - disposition
    • Minor Plumbing system
    • Minor Reduced oxygen packaging without a variance
    • Minor Facilities: Floors, walls, and ceilings
    • Minor Preset Tableware
  6. 2024
  7. Passed Aug 19

    Routine Inspection

    16 violations, 6 critical
    • Critical Time/Temperature Controlled Safety Food - TCS - hot and cold holding
    • Critical Demonstration of Knowledge - Person in charge - duties
    • Critical Chemical - Poisonous/toxic material
    • Critical Demonstration of Knowledge - Person in charge - assignment of responsibility
    • Critical Time/Temperature Controlled Safety Food - Ready-to-eat, TCS - date marking
    • Critical Preventing Contamination by Hands - Using handwashing facility
    • Minor Warewashing equipment
    • Minor Sanitizing solutions
    • Minor In-use utensils - between-use storage
    • Minor Cutting surfaces.
    • Minor Ventilation hood systems
    • Minor Plumbing system
    • Minor Preset Tableware
    • Minor Facilities: Floor and wall junctures - coved, and enclosed or sealed
    • Minor Facilities: Floors, walls, and ceilings
    • Minor Fixed equipment installation

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