818 Smoke Shop is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on December 16, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation β the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean π.
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 16, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
818 Smoke Shop has 3 inspections on record going back to April 8, 2024, averaging 97 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 16, 2025 | Grade A | 94 pts |
| December 11, 2024 | Grade A | 97 pts |
| April 8, 2024 | Grade A | 99 pts |
Atwater Village runs 97% clean across 555 tracked restaurants β 541 clean, 12 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 555 spots Cooked tracks in Atwater Village, this one comes out cleaner than 37% of them.
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 LAβs scores are final at the time of inspection β there is no pending window β a letter can be read straight off the score when the placard field is blank.
Source: LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health via LA County Open Data. Cooked refreshes this data daily β this listing's most recent inspection is dated December 16, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.