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Costa's Family Restaurant
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score93 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 1, 2025
- address851 E San Bernardino Rd, Covina 91723
Is Costa's Family Restaurant clean?
Costa's Family Restaurant is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 1, 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 Costa's Family Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 1, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ⚠️# 24. PERSON IN CHARGE PRESENT AND PERFORMS DUTIES# 24. PERSON IN CHARGE PRESENT AND PERFORMS DUTIES
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- 🛠️gear not up to code# 35. EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS - APPROVED; INSTALLED; CLEAN; GOOD REPAIR, CAPACITY
When was Costa's Family Restaurant last inspected?
Costa's Family Restaurant has 3 inspections on record going back to December 26, 2023, averaging 93 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 1, 2025 | Grade A | 93 pts |
| January 29, 2025 | Grade A | 90 pts |
| December 26, 2023 | Grade A | 95 pts |
Costa's Family Restaurant vs Covina (Charter Oak)
Covina (Charter Oak) runs 96% clean across 141 tracked restaurants — 135 clean, 6 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 141 spots Cooked tracks in Covina (Charter Oak), this one comes out cleaner than 30% of them.
Other spots in Covina (Charter Oak)
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 October 1, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.