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El Huarachito Restaurant
- gradeGrade C
- inspection score75 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedApril 29, 2025
- address3010 1/2 N Broadway, Los Angeles 90031
Is El Huarachito Restaurant clean?
El Huarachito Restaurant is currently Grade C from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on April 29, 2025. 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 El Huarachito Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 29, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🛠️gear not up to code# 35. EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS - APPROVED; INSTALLED; CLEAN; GOOD REPAIR, CAPACITY
- ⚠️# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- 🧫food prep surfaces dirty# 27. FOOD SEPARATED AND PROTECTED
- ⚠️# 51. PERMIT SUSPENSION# 51. PERMIT SUSPENSION
- 🚻bathroom issues# 43. PREMISES; PERSONAL/CLEANING ITEMS; VERMIN-PROOFING
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted# 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR
- 🐀rodents, insects, or animals insidecritical# 23. NO RODENTS, INSECTS, BIRDS, OR ANIMALS
- ⚠️# 13. FOOD IN GOOD CONDITION, SAFE AND UNADULTERATEDcritical# 13. FOOD IN GOOD CONDITION, SAFE AND UNADULTERATED
- ⚠️# 39. WIPING CLOTHS: PROPERLY USED AND STORED# 39. WIPING CLOTHS: PROPERLY USED AND STORED
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
When was El Huarachito Restaurant last inspected?
El Huarachito Restaurant has 2 inspections on record going back to June 3, 2024, averaging 86 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 29, 2025 | Grade C | 75 pts |
| June 3, 2024 | Grade A | 97 pts |
El Huarachito Restaurant vs Lincoln Heights
Lincoln Heights runs 96% clean across 153 tracked restaurants — 147 clean, 5 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 153 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Heights, 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.
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 29, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.