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La Indiana Home Made Tamales
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score83 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedJanuary 22, 2026
- address1142 S Indiana St, Los Angeles 90023
Is La Indiana Home Made Tamales clean?
La Indiana Home Made Tamales is currently Grade B from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on January 22, 2026. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at La Indiana Home Made Tamales?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 22, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEANFLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️NO INSECTS, RODENTS, BIRDS OR ANIMALS PRESENTNO INSECTS, RODENTS, BIRDS OR ANIMALS PRESENT
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcriticalFOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLINGIMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
- ⚠️MULTIPLE MAJOR CRITICAL VIOLATIONS / INCREASED RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTHMULTIPLE MAJOR CRITICAL VIOLATIONS / INCREASED RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTH
- ⚠️DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGEDEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
- ⚠️PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATUREScriticalPROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITYEQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
When was La Indiana Home Made Tamales last inspected?
La Indiana Home Made Tamales has 3 inspections on record going back to December 19, 2023, averaging 89 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 22, 2026 | Grade B | 83 pts |
| July 23, 2025 | Grade A | 95 pts |
| December 19, 2023 | Grade A | 90 pts |
La Indiana Home Made Tamales 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 5% 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 January 22, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.