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El Tenampa Restaurant
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score90 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedNovember 19, 2025
- address21312 S Alameda St, Carson 90810
Is El Tenampa Restaurant clean?
El Tenampa Restaurant is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on November 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 Tenampa Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 19, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️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
- ⚠️FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATIONFOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcriticalFOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEANNON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
When was El Tenampa Restaurant last inspected?
El Tenampa Restaurant has 2 inspections on record going back to September 11, 2023, averaging 91 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| November 19, 2025 | Grade A | 90 pts |
| September 11, 2023 | Grade A | 92 pts |
El Tenampa Restaurant vs City Of Carson
City Of Carson runs 98% clean across 188 tracked restaurants — 185 clean, 2 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 188 spots Cooked tracks in City Of Carson, this one comes out cleaner than 2% 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 November 19, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.