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El Cocinero Restaurant, Inc
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score90 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedDecember 11, 2025
- address6265 Sepulveda Blvd # 12, Van Nuys 91411
Is El Cocinero Restaurant, Inc clean?
El Cocinero Restaurant, Inc is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on December 11, 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 El Cocinero Restaurant, Inc?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 11, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITYEQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
- ⚠️ADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USEADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USE
- ⚠️TIME AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CONTROL; PROCEDURES & RECORDScriticalTIME AS A PUBLIC HEALTH CONTROL; PROCEDURES & RECORDS
- ⚠️FOOD STORAGE; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIEDFOOD STORAGE; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIED
- ⚠️WIPING CLOTHS: PROPERLY USED AND STOREDWIPING CLOTHS: PROPERLY USED AND STORED
- ⚠️FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATIONFOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
When was El Cocinero Restaurant, Inc last inspected?
El Cocinero Restaurant, Inc has 3 inspections on record going back to March 26, 2024, averaging 93 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 11, 2025 | Grade A | 90 pts |
| November 12, 2024 | Grade A | 97 pts |
| March 26, 2024 | Grade A | 92 pts |
El Cocinero Restaurant, Inc vs Mission Hills
Mission Hills runs 99% clean across 117 tracked restaurants — 116 clean, 1 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 117 spots Cooked tracks in Mission Hills, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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 December 11, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.