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El Puerto Escondido
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score94 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 19, 2025
- address3629 W Imperial Hwy, Inglewood 90303
Is El Puerto Escondido clean?
El Puerto Escondido is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on August 19, 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 Puerto Escondido?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ♨️reheating done sketchycritical# 11. PROPER REHEATING PROCEDURES FOR HOT HOLDING
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
When was El Puerto Escondido last inspected?
El Puerto Escondido has 2 inspections on record going back to August 21, 2024, averaging 93 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| August 19, 2025 | Grade A | 94 pts |
| August 21, 2024 | Grade A | 91 pts |
El Puerto Escondido vs City Of Hawthorne
City Of Hawthorne runs 99% clean across 121 tracked restaurants — 120 clean, 1 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 121 spots Cooked tracks in City Of Hawthorne, this one comes out cleaner than 20% of them.
Other spots in City Of Hawthorne
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 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.