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Gary's Liquor
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score95 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedDecember 3, 2025
- address5067 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles 90038
Is Gary's Liquor clean?
Gary's Liquor is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on December 3, 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 Gary's Liquor?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 3, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITYEQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
- ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLINGIMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
- ⚠️FOOD OBTAINED FROM APPROVED SOURCEcriticalFOOD OBTAINED FROM APPROVED SOURCE
When was Gary's Liquor last inspected?
Gary's Liquor has 3 inspections on record going back to April 23, 2024, averaging 98 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 3, 2025 | Grade A | 95 pts |
| October 7, 2024 | Grade A | 100 pts |
| April 23, 2024 | Grade A | 99 pts |
Gary's Liquor vs Little Armenia
Little Armenia runs 97% clean across 289 tracked restaurants — 279 clean, 9 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 289 spots Cooked tracks in Little Armenia, this one comes out cleaner than 35% 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 December 3, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.