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Echo Park Cafe
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score91 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJanuary 16, 2026
- address751 Echo Park Ave, Los Angeles 90026
Is Echo Park Cafe clean?
Echo Park Cafe is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on January 16, 2026. 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 Echo Park Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 16, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITYEQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
- ⚠️PREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFINGPREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFING
- ⚠️PROPER COOLING METHODScriticalPROPER COOLING METHODS
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEANFLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️NO INSECTS, RODENTS, BIRDS OR ANIMALS PRESENTNO INSECTS, RODENTS, BIRDS OR ANIMALS PRESENT
- ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLINGIMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
When was Echo Park Cafe last inspected?
Echo Park Cafe has 1 inspection on record going back to January 16, 2026, averaging 91 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 16, 2026 | Grade A | 91 pts |
Echo Park Cafe vs Temple-Beaudry
Temple-Beaudry runs 97% clean across 71 tracked restaurants — 69 clean, 1 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 71 spots Cooked tracks in Temple-Beaudry, this one comes out cleaner than 15% of them.
Other spots in Temple-Beaudry
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 January 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.