Cooked?5 Minute Bowl
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score90 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 27, 2025 →
- address440 S Vermont Ave Ste 101, Los Angeles 90020
Is 5 Minute Bowl clean?
5 Minute Bowl is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on August 27, 2025. 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 5 Minute Bowl?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 27, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️# 21A. HOT WATER AVAILABLEcritical
- 🍗undercooked food risk# 09. PROPER COOLING METHODS
- ⚠️# 01A. DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
- ⚠️# 34. WAREWASHING FACILITIES: ADEQUATE, MAINTAINED, PROPERLY USE, TEST STRIPS AVAILABLE
- 🌡️thermometers missing# 36. EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
When was 5 Minute Bowl last inspected?
5 Minute Bowl has 3 inspections on record going back to August 9, 2023, averaging 91 points.
August 27, 2025 A
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View full inspection →October 8, 2024 A
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View full inspection →August 9, 2023 A
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View full inspection →5 Minute Bowl vs Wilshire Center
Wilshire Center runs 95% clean across 245 tracked restaurants — 232 clean, 11 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 245 spots Cooked tracks in Wilshire Center, this one comes out cleaner than 5% 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 August 27, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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