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Ben's Friends/The Moon Room
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score96 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedSeptember 12, 2024
- address7174 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles 90046
Is Ben's Friends/The Moon Room clean?
Ben's Friends/The Moon Room is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on September 12, 2024. 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 Ben's Friends/The Moon Room?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 12, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD
- ⚠️# 13. FOOD IN GOOD CONDITION, SAFE AND UNADULTERATEDcritical# 13. FOOD IN GOOD CONDITION, SAFE AND UNADULTERATED
When was Ben's Friends/The Moon Room last inspected?
Ben's Friends/The Moon Room has 1 inspection on record going back to September 12, 2024, averaging 96 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| September 12, 2024 | Grade A | 96 pts |
Ben's Friends/The Moon Room vs Melrose
Melrose runs 98% clean across 653 tracked restaurants — 637 clean, 13 mid, 3 cooked.
Against the 653 spots Cooked tracks in Melrose, this one comes out cleaner than 49% 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 September 12, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.