Cooked?Blue Bottle Coffee
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score91 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 13, 2025 →
- address300 S Broadway, Los Angeles 90013
Is Blue Bottle Coffee clean?
Blue Bottle Coffee is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on August 13, 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 Blue Bottle Coffee?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 13, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️# 34. WAREWASHING FACILITIES: ADEQUATE, MAINTAINED, PROPERLY USE, TEST STRIPS AVAILABLE
- ⚠️# 01A. DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted# 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR
When was Blue Bottle Coffee last inspected?
Blue Bottle Coffee has 3 inspections on record going back to January 29, 2024, averaging 93 points.
August 13, 2025 A
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View full inspection →August 12, 2024 A
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View full inspection →January 29, 2024 A
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View full inspection →Blue Bottle Coffee vs Little Tokyo
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Against the 905 spots Cooked tracks in Little Tokyo, this one comes out cleaner than 15% 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 13, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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