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Don Chons Menudo
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score93 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 15, 2025
- address13302 1/2 Filmore St, Pacoima 91331
Is Don Chons Menudo clean?
Don Chons Menudo is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 15, 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 Don Chons Menudo?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 15, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATUREScriticalPROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
- ⚠️PREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFINGPREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFING
- ⚠️FOOD SEPARATED AND PROTECTEDFOOD SEPARATED AND PROTECTED
- ⚠️THERMOMETERS PROVIDED AND ACCURATETHERMOMETERS PROVIDED AND ACCURATE
- ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLINGIMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
When was Don Chons Menudo last inspected?
Don Chons Menudo has 3 inspections on record going back to February 26, 2024, averaging 94 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 15, 2025 | Grade A | 93 pts |
| January 31, 2025 | Grade A | 95 pts |
| February 26, 2024 | Grade A | 95 pts |
Don Chons Menudo vs Pacoima
Pacoima runs 98% clean across 184 tracked restaurants — 180 clean, 3 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 184 spots Cooked tracks in Pacoima, this one comes out cleaner than 13% 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 October 15, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.