LA CATRINA MEXICAN RESTAURANT
4800 BASELINE ROAD, BOULDER, CO 80303
Last inspected Apr 16, 2026
Official source: Boulder County Public Health (bouldercounty.gov) · All data sources
Passed. Met health requirements at the latest inspection. Some health departments report pass/fail instead of letter grades.
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Boulder County Public Health reports one inspection on record for LA CATRINA MEXICAN RESTAURANT, from April 2026.
The most recent inspection noted 4 violations, none of them critical.
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Inspection history
Apr 16, 2026
✓4 violations
- 15. Food separated and protected. Observed raw shell eggs in walk in refrigerator stored above ready-to-eat (RTE) chopped onions, tomatoes and other fresh prepped raw vegetables. 3-302.11 Packaged and Unpackaged Food - Separation, Packaging, and Segregation. Food must be protected from cross contamination by separating raw animal food during storage, preparation, holding, and display from raw RTE foods such as fruits and vegetables, and cooked RTE foods, and fruits and vegetables before they are washed. Corrected during inspection, operator relocated raw shell eggs to shelving below RTE items.
- 2. Certified Food Protection Manager. No CFPM was present at time of inspection. 2-102.12 The person in charge must be a certified food protection manager who has passed a test that is part of an accredited program. Emailed CFPM course information with this report, including contact information for CFPM in Spanish.
- 33. Proper cooling methods used; adequate equipment for temperature control. Observed rice on shelf near stove, at 112ºF, tightly wrapped in plastic bag. Person in charge states that the rice is cooling and will be microwaved to reheat when ordered. 3-501.15(B) Cooling Methods... When placed in cooling or cold holding equipment, food containers in which food is being cooled shall be: (1) Arranged in the equipment to provide maximum heat transfer through the container walls; and (2) Loosely covered, or uncovered during the cooling period to facilitate heat transfer from the surface of the food. If this rice is being held to serve it should be held in hot holding at 135ºF or warmer. If being cooled then it should be walk in refrigerator following cooling parameters 135ºF to 70ºF within first 2 hours, 70ºF to 41ºF or lower within 4 hours. See educational materials provided.
- 16. Food contact surfaces; cleaned and sanitized. Observed sanitizer not dispensing in dish machine, 0 PPM with test strips. 4-501.114 Manual and Mechanical Warewashing Equipment. All food contact surfaces must be washed-rinsed-sanitized. Maintain adequate sanitizer, use according to manufacturer instructions and use test strips to check sanitizer concentration. Person in charge showed inspector invoice, the dish machine was just serviced today at 1pm, just before inspection. Reciept confimed service performed on machine. Person in charge primed tubing to dispense sanitizer now reading 50 PPM.
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