Cooked?Don Lino's Mexican Food
- gradeGrade C
- inspection score74 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedJanuary 15, 2026 →
- address3525 W 3Rd St 4, Los Angeles 90020
Is Don Lino's Mexican Food clean?
Don Lino's Mexican Food is currently Grade C from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on January 15, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Don Lino's Mexican Food?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 15, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATUREScritical
- ⚠️TOXIC SUBSTANCES PROPERLY IDENTIFIED, STORED, AND USED
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
- ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
- ⚠️NO INSECTS, RODENTS, BIRDS OR ANIMALS PRESENTcritical
- ⚠️PERMIT SUSPENDED, REVOKED, MODIFIED, OR CLOSED FOR NO PERMIT
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- ⚠️PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
- ⚠️PREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFING
- ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcritical
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
When was Don Lino's Mexican Food last inspected?
Don Lino's Mexican Food has 3 inspections on record going back to July 10, 2023, averaging 88 points.
January 15, 2026 C
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View full inspection →November 13, 2024 A
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View full inspection →July 10, 2023 A
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View full inspection →Don Lino's Mexican Food vs Wilshire Center
Wilshire Center runs 95% clean across 245 tracked restaurants — 232 clean, 11 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 245 spots Cooked tracks in Wilshire Center, 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 January 15, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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