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Flaming Seafood Buffet
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score82 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedOctober 8, 2025
- address14021 Pioneer Blvd, Norwalk 90650
Is Flaming Seafood Buffet clean?
Flaming Seafood Buffet is currently Grade B from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 8, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at Flaming Seafood Buffet?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 8, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEANNON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
- ⚠️ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES; SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLEADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES; SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
- ⚠️PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGEPLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
- ⚠️PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATUREScriticalPROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
- ⚠️APPROVED THAWING METHODS USED, FROZEN FOODAPPROVED THAWING METHODS USED, FROZEN FOOD
- ⚠️PERSONAL CLEANLINESS AND HAIR RESTRAINTSPERSONAL CLEANLINESS AND HAIR RESTRAINTS
- ⚠️FOOD STORAGE; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIEDFOOD STORAGE; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIED
- ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLINGIMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcriticalFOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ⚠️MULTIPLE MAJOR CRITICAL VIOLATIONS / INCREASED RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTHMULTIPLE MAJOR CRITICAL VIOLATIONS / INCREASED RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTH
When was Flaming Seafood Buffet last inspected?
Flaming Seafood Buffet has 2 inspections on record going back to October 9, 2024, averaging 86 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 8, 2025 | Grade B | 82 pts |
| October 9, 2024 | Grade A | 90 pts |
Flaming Seafood Buffet vs City Of Norwalk
City Of Norwalk runs 97% clean across 265 tracked restaurants — 258 clean, 7 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 265 spots Cooked tracks in City Of Norwalk, 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 October 8, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.