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Howdy Bargain Discount Store
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score97 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedMarch 5, 2026
- address1025 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Los Angeles 90037
Is Howdy Bargain Discount Store clean?
Howdy Bargain Discount Store is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on March 5, 2026. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Howdy Bargain Discount Store?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 5, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️FOOD STORAGE; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIEDFOOD STORAGE; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIED
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEANFLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️FOOD PROPERLY LABELED & HONESTLY PRESENTEDFOOD PROPERLY LABELED & HONESTLY PRESENTED
When was Howdy Bargain Discount Store last inspected?
Howdy Bargain Discount Store has 2 inspections on record going back to January 25, 2024, averaging 96 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 5, 2026 | Grade A | 97 pts |
| January 25, 2024 | Grade A | 95 pts |
Howdy Bargain Discount Store vs Exposition Park
Exposition Park runs 97% clean across 171 tracked restaurants — 166 clean, 4 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 171 spots Cooked tracks in Exposition Park, this one comes out cleaner than 48% 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 March 5, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.