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La Michoacana Ice Cream Shop
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score88 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 7, 2025
- address5739 Imperial Hwy, South Gate 90280
Is La Michoacana Ice Cream Shop clean?
La Michoacana Ice Cream Shop is currently Grade B from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 7, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 1 critical violation — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads mid 😬.
What did inspectors find at La Michoacana Ice Cream Shop?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 7, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️TOXIC SUBSTANCES PROPERLY IDENTIFIED, STORED, AND USEDTOXIC SUBSTANCES PROPERLY IDENTIFIED, STORED, AND USED
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITYEQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
- ⚠️ADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USEADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USE
- ⚠️HANDS CLEAN AND PROPERLY WASHED; PROPER GLOVE USEHANDS CLEAN AND PROPERLY WASHED; PROPER GLOVE USE
- ⚠️FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATIONFOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcriticalFOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEANFLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
When was La Michoacana Ice Cream Shop last inspected?
La Michoacana Ice Cream Shop has 2 inspections on record going back to October 28, 2024, averaging 92 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 7, 2025 | Grade B | 88 pts |
| October 28, 2024 | Grade A | 96 pts |
La Michoacana Ice Cream Shop vs Lynwood
Lynwood runs 87% clean across 112 tracked restaurants — 97 clean, 12 mid, 3 cooked.
Against the 112 spots Cooked tracks in Lynwood, this one comes out cleaner than 13% 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 7, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.