Cooked?La Grocery & Cafe - Restaurant
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score95 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedAugust 21, 2025 →
- address5059 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles 90038
Is La Grocery & Cafe - Restaurant clean?
La Grocery & Cafe - Restaurant is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on August 21, 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 Grocery & Cafe - Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on August 21, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️# 21A. HOT WATER AVAILABLEcritical
- ⚠️# 47. PERMITS AVAILABLE
When was La Grocery & Cafe - Restaurant last inspected?
La Grocery & Cafe - Restaurant has 3 inspections on record going back to June 13, 2024, averaging 98 points.
August 21, 2025 A
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View full inspection →March 5, 2025 A
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View full inspection →June 13, 2024 A
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View full inspection →La Grocery & Cafe - Restaurant 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.
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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily, but the authority publishes in batches, so a recent visit may not appear yet. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.
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 August 21, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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