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La Casa Chapina
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score95 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 23, 2025
- address501 N Western Ave, Los Angeles 90004
Is La Casa Chapina clean?
La Casa Chapina is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 23, 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 La Casa Chapina?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 23, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️ADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USEADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USE
- ⚠️HOT AND COLD WATER AVAILABLEcriticalHOT AND COLD WATER AVAILABLE
When was La Casa Chapina last inspected?
La Casa Chapina has 4 inspections on record going back to December 21, 2023, averaging 95 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 23, 2025 | Grade A | 95 pts |
| March 6, 2025 | Grade A | 93 pts |
| September 21, 2024 | Grade A | 98 pts |
| December 21, 2023 | Grade A | 94 pts |
La Casa Chapina 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 October 23, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.