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Big Bates Fish Market
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score81 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedAugust 21, 2025
- address2206 W El Segundo Blvd, Gardena 90249
Is Big Bates Fish Market clean?
Big Bates Fish Market is currently Grade B from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on August 21, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Big Bates Fish Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 21, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- 🛠️gear not up to code# 35. EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS - APPROVED; INSTALLED; CLEAN; GOOD REPAIR, CAPACITY
- 🌡️hot/cold holding temps offcritical# 07. PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
- 🚻bathroom issues# 43. PREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFING
- 🐀rodents, insects, or animals insidecritical# 23. NO RODENTS, INSECTS, BIRDS, OR ANIMALS
- ⚠️# 51. PERMIT SUSPENSION# 51. PERMIT SUSPENSION
- 🚿plumbing acting up# 40. PLUMBING: PLUMBING IN GOOD REPAIR, PROPER BACKFLOW DEVICES
When was Big Bates Fish Market last inspected?
Big Bates Fish Market has 3 inspections on record going back to June 12, 2024, averaging 91 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 21, 2025 | Grade B | 81 pts |
| March 25, 2025 | Grade A | 95 pts |
| June 12, 2024 | Grade A | 96 pts |
Big Bates Fish Market vs Hawthorne
Hawthorne runs 95% clean across 129 tracked restaurants — 122 clean, 4 mid, 3 cooked.
Against the 129 spots Cooked tracks in Hawthorne, this one comes out cleaner than 4% 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 21, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.