Cafe Tropical

• gradeGrade A
• inspection score93 pts
• critical violations1
• last inspectedApril 3, 2026
• address2900 W Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles 90026

Is Cafe Tropical clean?

Cafe Tropical is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on April 3, 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 Tropical?

These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 3, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.

• ⚠️TIME AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CONTROL; PROCEDURES & RECORDScritical
  TIME AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CONTROL; PROCEDURES & RECORDS
• ⚠️FOOD STORAGE; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIED
  FOOD STORAGE; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIED
• ⚠️EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
  EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
• ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
  IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
• ⚠️TOXIC SUBSTANCES PROPERLY IDENTIFIED, STORED, AND USED
  TOXIC SUBSTANCES PROPERLY IDENTIFIED, STORED, AND USED

When was Cafe Tropical last inspected?

Cafe Tropical has 2 inspections on record going back to July 23, 2024, averaging 95 points.

Cafe Tropical vs Historic Filipinotown

Historic Filipinotown runs 97% clean across 97 tracked restaurants — 94 clean, 1 mid, 2 cooked.

Against the 97 spots Cooked tracks in Historic Filipinotown, this one comes out cleaner than 19% 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 April 3, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.