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Cafe De Mama
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score90 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJanuary 28, 2026
- address1102 S Western Ave, Los Angeles 90006
Is Cafe De Mama clean?
Cafe De Mama is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on January 28, 2026. 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 Cafe De Mama?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 28, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEANNON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
- ⚠️FOOD PROPERLY LABELED & HONESTLY PRESENTEDFOOD PROPERLY LABELED & HONESTLY PRESENTED
- ⚠️THERMOMETERS PROVIDED AND ACCURATETHERMOMETERS PROVIDED AND ACCURATE
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEANFLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATIONFOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcriticalFOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
When was Cafe De Mama last inspected?
Cafe De Mama has 3 inspections on record going back to August 14, 2023, averaging 92 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 28, 2026 | Grade A | 90 pts |
| July 19, 2024 | Grade A | 94 pts |
| August 14, 2023 | Grade A | 92 pts |
Cafe De Mama vs Koreatown
Koreatown runs 95% clean across 329 tracked restaurants — 314 clean, 14 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 329 spots Cooked tracks in Koreatown, 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 January 28, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.