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Buko Japanese Restaurant
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score91 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedNovember 5, 2025
- address327 N Verdugo Rd, Glendale 91206
Is Buko Japanese Restaurant clean?
Buko Japanese Restaurant is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on November 5, 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 Buko Japanese Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 5, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURESPROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITYEQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
- ⚠️PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGEPLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcriticalFOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLINGIMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEANFLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
When was Buko Japanese Restaurant last inspected?
Buko Japanese Restaurant has 1 inspection on record going back to November 5, 2025, averaging 91 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 5, 2025 | Grade A | 91 pts |
Buko Japanese Restaurant vs Eagle Rock
Eagle Rock runs 96% clean across 254 tracked restaurants — 243 clean, 11 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 254 spots Cooked tracks in Eagle Rock, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 November 5, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.