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La Primera Meat Market
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score84 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 28, 2025
- address5004 Calmview Ave, Baldwin Park 91706
Is La Primera Meat Market clean?
La Primera Meat Market is currently Grade B from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 28, 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 Primera Meat Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 28, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURESPROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
- ⚠️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
- ⚠️PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGEPLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
- ⚠️HOT AND COLD WATER AVAILABLEHOT AND COLD WATER AVAILABLE
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USEEQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEANFLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️FOOD PROPERLY LABELED & HONESTLY PRESENTEDFOOD PROPERLY LABELED & HONESTLY PRESENTED
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcriticalFOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ⚠️FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATIONFOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
When was La Primera Meat Market last inspected?
La Primera Meat Market has 2 inspections on record going back to January 19, 2024, averaging 82 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 28, 2025 | Grade B | 84 pts |
| January 19, 2024 | Grade B | 80 pts |
La Primera Meat Market vs City Of Irwindale
City Of Irwindale runs 91% clean across 76 tracked restaurants — 69 clean, 6 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 76 spots Cooked tracks in City Of Irwindale, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.
Other spots in City Of Irwindale
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 28, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.