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La Bufadora Bar
- gradeGrade C
- inspection score78 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMarch 8, 2026
- address3470 1St St, Los Angeles 90063
Is La Bufadora Bar clean?
La Bufadora Bar is currently Grade C from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on March 8, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at La Bufadora Bar?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 8, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️WAREWASHING FACILITIES: INSTALLED, MAINTAINED; USED; TEST EQUIPMENTWAREWASHING FACILITIES: INSTALLED, MAINTAINED; USED; TEST EQUIPMENT
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEANFLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️GARBAGE AND REFUSE PROPERLY DISPOSED; FACILITIES MAINTAINEDGARBAGE AND REFUSE PROPERLY DISPOSED; FACILITIES MAINTAINED
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcriticalFOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ⚠️FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATIONFOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
- ⚠️MULTIPLE MAJOR CRITICAL VIOLATIONS / INCREASED RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTHMULTIPLE MAJOR CRITICAL VIOLATIONS / INCREASED RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTH
- ⚠️ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES; SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLEADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES; SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
- ⚠️PERMITS AVAILABLEPERMITS AVAILABLE
- ⚠️ADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USEADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USE
- ⚠️DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGEDEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
- ⚠️HOT AND COLD WATER AVAILABLEcriticalHOT AND COLD WATER AVAILABLE
When was La Bufadora Bar last inspected?
La Bufadora Bar has 1 inspection on record going back to March 8, 2026, averaging 78 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 8, 2026 | Grade C | 78 pts |
La Bufadora Bar 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 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 March 8, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.