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La Monarca Bakery
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score93 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJune 29, 2026
- address1300 Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica 90403
Is La Monarca Bakery clean?
La Monarca Bakery is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on June 29, 2026. 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 Monarca Bakery?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on June 29, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITYEQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
- ⚠️NOTIFICATION OF INTENT TO SUSPENDNOTIFICATION OF INTENT TO SUSPEND
- ⚠️IMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLINGIMPOUNDMENT/VOLUNTARY CONDEMN AND DISPOSE (VC&D)/SAMPLING
- ⚠️PROPER COOLING METHODScriticalPROPER COOLING METHODS
- ⚠️FOOD STORAGE; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIEDFOOD STORAGE; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIED
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USEEQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
When was La Monarca Bakery last inspected?
La Monarca Bakery has 3 inspections on record going back to August 2, 2024, averaging 91 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| June 29, 2026 | Grade A | 93 pts |
| June 23, 2026 | Grade B | 85 pts |
| August 2, 2024 | Grade A | 94 pts |
La Monarca Bakery vs University Park
University Park runs 94% clean across 287 tracked restaurants — 271 clean, 15 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 287 spots Cooked tracks in University Park, this one comes out cleaner than 32% of them.
Other spots in University Park
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 June 29, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.