Cooked?Charlie's Best Burgers Ela
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score80 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMarch 31, 2026 →
- address5138 E Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles 90022
Is Charlie's Best Burgers Ela clean?
Charlie's Best Burgers Ela is currently Grade B from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on March 31, 2026. 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 Charlie's Best Burgers Ela?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 31, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- ⚠️TOILET FACILITIES: PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED, SUPPLIED, CLEANED
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️FOOD IN GOOD CONDITION, SAFE AND UNADULTERATEDcritical
- ⚠️PREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFING
- ⚠️DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
- ⚠️HANDS CLEAN AND PROPERLY WASHED; PROPER GLOVE USEcritical
- ⚠️MULTIPLE MAJOR CRITICAL VIOLATIONS / INCREASED RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTH
- ⚠️FOOD STORAGE; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIED
When was Charlie's Best Burgers Ela last inspected?
Charlie's Best Burgers Ela has 3 inspections on record going back to September 19, 2024, averaging 74 points.
March 31, 2026 B
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View full inspection →March 23, 2026 C
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View full inspection →September 19, 2024 B
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View full inspection →Charlie's Best Burgers Ela vs East Los Angeles
East Los Angeles runs 91% clean across 387 tracked restaurants — 352 clean, 31 mid, 4 cooked.
Against the 387 spots Cooked tracks in East Los Angeles, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 March 31, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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