Cooked?Diredawa Ethiopian Restaurant
- gradeGrade C
- inspection score78 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedApril 17, 2025 →
- address5581 W Manchester Ave, Los Angeles 90045
Is Diredawa Ethiopian Restaurant clean?
Diredawa Ethiopian Restaurant is currently Grade C from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on April 17, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Diredawa Ethiopian Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- ❓food from an unapproved source# 06. ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- 🚿plumbing acting up# 40. PLUMBING: PLUMBING IN GOOD REPAIR, PROPER BACKFLOW DEVICES
- ⚠️# 51. PERMIT SUSPENSION
- 🧫food prep surfaces dirty# 27. FOOD SEPARATED AND PROTECTED
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted# 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR
- ⚠️# 47. PERMITS AVAILABLE
- 🐀rodents, insects, or animals insidecritical# 23. NO RODENTS, INSECTS, BIRDS, OR ANIMALS
When was Diredawa Ethiopian Restaurant last inspected?
Diredawa Ethiopian Restaurant has 2 inspections on record going back to April 30, 2024, averaging 86 points.
April 17, 2025 C
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View full inspection →Diredawa Ethiopian Restaurant vs City Of Inglewood
City Of Inglewood runs 96% clean across 392 tracked restaurants — 378 clean, 11 mid, 3 cooked.
Against the 392 spots Cooked tracks in City Of Inglewood, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 April 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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