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L8 Kitchen
- gradeGrade C
- inspection score75 pts
- critical violations3
- last inspectedOctober 18, 2023
- address3592 E 1St St, Los Angeles 90063
Is L8 Kitchen clean?
L8 Kitchen is currently Grade C from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 18, 2023. Inspectors wrote up 3 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at L8 Kitchen?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 18, 2023, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️# 46. SIGNS POSTED; LAST INSPECTION REPORT AVAILABLE# 46. SIGNS POSTED; LAST INSPECTION REPORT AVAILABLE
- ⚠️# 01B. FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION# 01B. FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
- ⚠️# 47. PERMITS AVAILABLE# 47. PERMITS AVAILABLE
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- ⚠️# 51. PERMIT SUSPENSION# 51. PERMIT SUSPENSION
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted# 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR
- 🐀rodents, insects, or animals insidecritical# 23. NO RODENTS, INSECTS, BIRDS, OR ANIMALS
- ⚠️# 13. FOOD IN GOOD CONDITION, SAFE AND UNADULTERATEDcritical# 13. FOOD IN GOOD CONDITION, SAFE AND UNADULTERATED
- ⚠️# 21A. HOT WATER AVAILABLEcritical# 21A. HOT WATER AVAILABLE
When was L8 Kitchen last inspected?
L8 Kitchen has 1 inspection on record going back to October 18, 2023, averaging 75 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 18, 2023 | Grade C | 75 pts |
L8 Kitchen vs Boyle Heights
Boyle Heights runs 90% clean across 458 tracked restaurants — 412 clean, 39 mid, 7 cooked.
Against the 458 spots Cooked tracks in Boyle Heights, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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 18, 2023. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.