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Hill Street Cafe & Cigar
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score93 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 2, 2024
- address818 N Hill St Ste K, Los Angeles 90012
Is Hill Street Cafe & Cigar clean?
Hill Street Cafe & Cigar is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on July 2, 2024. 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 Hill Street Cafe & Cigar?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 2, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️# 01B. FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION# 01B. FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- 🚿plumbing acting up# 40. PLUMBING: PLUMBING IN GOOD REPAIR, PROPER BACKFLOW DEVICES
When was Hill Street Cafe & Cigar last inspected?
Hill Street Cafe & Cigar has 1 inspection on record going back to July 2, 2024, averaging 93 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 2, 2024 | Grade A | 93 pts |
Hill Street Cafe & Cigar vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 91% clean across 230 tracked restaurants — 209 clean, 19 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 230 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 32% 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 July 2, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.