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El Pueblo Produce Market
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score91 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 18, 2025
- address4706 S Western Ave, Los Angeles 90062
Is El Pueblo Produce Market clean?
El Pueblo Produce Market is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on August 18, 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 Pueblo Produce Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 18, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🐀rodents, insects, or animals inside# 23. NO RODENTS, INSECTS, BIRDS, OR ANIMALS
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted# 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ❓food from an unapproved source# 06. ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
When was El Pueblo Produce Market last inspected?
El Pueblo Produce Market has 3 inspections on record going back to December 11, 2023, averaging 93 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 18, 2025 | Grade A | 91 pts |
| July 29, 2024 | Grade A | 92 pts |
| December 11, 2023 | Grade A | 96 pts |
El Pueblo Produce Market vs Vermont Square
Vermont Square runs 96% clean across 47 tracked restaurants — 45 clean, 2 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 47 spots Cooked tracks in Vermont Square, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 August 18, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.