8Gah Soondae

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score90 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedAugust 19, 2025
• address2703 W 8Th St Ste D, Los Angeles 90005

Is 8Gah Soondae clean?

8Gah Soondae is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on August 19, 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 8Gah Soondae?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized
  # 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
• 🍽️food left unprotected
  # 26. APPROVED THAWING METHODS USED, FROZEN FOOD MAINTAINED FROZEN
• ⚠️# 01A. DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
  # 01A. DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
• 🌡️hot/cold holding temps offcritical
  # 07. PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
• 🌡️thermometers missing
  # 36. EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE

When was 8Gah Soondae last inspected?

8Gah Soondae has 3 inspections on record going back to September 5, 2023, averaging 93 points.

8Gah Soondae vs Westlake

Westlake runs 95% clean across 402 tracked restaurants — 383 clean, 15 mid, 4 cooked.

Against the 402 spots Cooked tracks in Westlake, 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.

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 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.