At a glance
CleanCleaver food safety systematic review results
What happened?
86/ 100 · 14 points taken off
3 problems found · 1 marked critical · Routine county inspection · Oct 14, 2025
At the routine inspection on Oct 14, 2025. The latest visit, on Oct 20, 2025, was a follow-up inspection. No notes were taken at it.
Is that a lot?
Most food places here got 2 to 15 points taken off. Casa Lupe Real Mexican Restaurant got about the same as most.
Compared with 9,600 Santa Clara County food places. Each place's last routine inspection counts.
What was found out about Casa Lupe Real Mexican Restaurant?
It's fair to care about this. Here's what the county found. Tap any item to see how a kitchen fixes it.
- Marked critical: Pests seen inside: roaches K23How to fixFix it
- Cooked food not cooled in time K09How to fixFix it
- Hot food below 135°F K07How to fixFix it
Source: County of Santa Clara Department of Environmental Health
We review Santa Clara County health data to make this report. We are not the County of Santa Clara Department of Environmental Health.
Visit them directly at deh.santaclaracounty.gov (opens the department's site) · How we review
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Next: Pests seen inside: roachesThe county found: “In the dry storage/equipment storage room, at the installed wooden shelving, observed multiple live cockroaches. [CA]…”
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Inspections
From County of Santa Clara Department of Environmental Health · 4 inspections on record · Last checked Oct 6, 2026
The county lists no visits in the last 12 months.
Nice work, Casa Lupe Real Mexican Restaurant. At the follow-up six days later, the county listed no items still open.
You cleared the re-check in six days. We're proud of you.
Every visit
LatestOct 20, 2025Follow-up inspection
No notes were taken, but there was an interaction, likely addressing some or all of the prior report. No inspector comment was found. See the official report (opens the department's site) for more information.
This one: a follow-up inspection on Oct 20, 2025. A follow-up visit re-checks earlier items. The last routine inspection was Oct 14, 2025: 86 out of 100 (Green placard).
EarlierOct 14, 2025Routine inspection86 out of 100 (Green placard)
3 violations listed, 1 marked critical.
Critical (1)
Marked critical by County of Santa Clara Department of Environmental Health
The department's words
K23 No rodents, insects, birds, or animals
In the dry storage/equipment storage room, at the installed wooden shelving, observed multiple live cockroaches. [CA] Ensure facility is kept free of cockroach activity. Seal all cracks and crevices to prevent harborage. Contact pest control to provide service for facility. Remove unapproved wooden shelving from the facility. [SA] Operator eliminated live cockroaches. Operator to removed wooden shelving.
Critical items are the ones most likely to make someone sick. This one comes first. Here's how a kitchen fixes it.
Food Code 6-501.111
How can a restaurant or home fix this?
What to do
- Any sign of mice, rats or roaches: act now. Protect or throw out affected food, clean the area, and call the pest control operator the same day.
- Flies or ants in food areas: act within 24 hours.
- Insects in food: throw that food out and check the stock around it.
From Food Code 6-501.112
What NOT to do
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Signs of pests and what to do
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Not critical (2)
Cooked food not cooled in time
The department's words
K09 Proper cooling methods
In the kitchen area, on the counter-top, measured a container of cooked rice cooling between 110F and 130F. Per operator, cooked rice cooling from an hour prior. [CA] Ensure potentially hazardous foods are RAPIDLY cooled from 135F to 70F within 2 hours, and then from 70F to 41F within 4 hours. Cooling shall be facilitated by one or more of the following methods: in an ice bath, using shallow containers, separated into smaller portions, by adding ice, using ice paddles, and/or using rapid cooling technology. [SA] Operator moved cooked rice to shallow containers and moved into the walk-in refrigerator to facilitate cooling.
Food Code 3-501.14
How can a restaurant or home fix this?
If you miss a stage
- Missed stage 1 (not 70°F by 2 hours): reheat to 165°F and start over, or throw it out.
- Missed stage 2 (not 41°F by 6 hours): throw it out.
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The department's words
K07 Proper hot and cold holding temperatures
In the kitchen area, at the insert top of the prep unit, measured raw shelled eggs at 49F. [CA] Ensure potentially hazardous foods are held cold at 41F and below to prevent bacterial growth. [SA] Operator moved raw shelled eggs from the insert top to the undercounter compartment to facilitate proper holding temperatures.
Food Code 3-501.16(A)(1)
How can a restaurant or home fix this?
If food is out of range
- Hot food below 135°F for less than 2 hours: reheat to 165°F.
- Cold food above 41°F for less than 2 hours: chill it right away.
- Unknown time or longer: throw it out.
Which foods need temperature control (TCS)
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Hot and cold holding
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EarlierJun 3, 2025Routine inspectionGreen placard
No violations listed in the data.
EarlierMay 28, 2025Routine inspectionGreen placard
2 violations listed, 0 marked critical.
Not critical (2)
Equipment in poor repair
The department's words
K35 Equipment, utensils: Approved, in good repair, adequate capacity
Observed facility is missing a prep sink for the proposed menu. [CA] Ensure an approved prep sink is installed through plan check approval.
Floors, walls or ceilings need cleaning or repair
The department's words
K45 Floor, walls, ceilings: built,maintained, clean
Observed missing cove base tiles around walls and installed counters. [CA] Ensure proper flooring is installed that is approved, smooth, durable, and easily cleanable.
Source: County of Santa Clara Department of Environmental Health. This is the department's data, not CleanCleaver's. See the department's full record (opens the department's site)
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- Pests seen inside: roaches Read the free guide
- Cooked food not cooled in time Read the free guide
- Hot food below 135°F Read the free guide
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Most people don't know what a normal result looks like for a place that's open every day. The ranges use each place's last routine inspection in this area. No other county is mixed in.
100 means the inspector found no problems. Santa Clara County takes points off for each problem. Big ones take off more.
The county posts a green, yellow or red placard after each inspection, and gives routine inspections a score. In the county's data, a routine inspection with no violations listed scored 100, and the score drops as violations are found. The county's page does not say which scores or findings give each color: ask the department.
- Inspection type
- Follow-up inspection
- Result
- Green placard
- Source
- County of Santa Clara Department of Environmental Health
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