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La Tapatia Meat Market
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score80 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMarch 12, 2025
- address3319 N Eastern Ave, Los Angeles 90032
Is La Tapatia Meat Market clean?
La Tapatia Meat Market is currently Grade B from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on March 12, 2025. 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 Tapatia Meat Market?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on March 12, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️# 34. WAREWASHING FACILITIES: ADEQUATE, MAINTAINED, PROPERLY USE, TEST STRIPS AVAILABLE# 34. WAREWASHING FACILITIES: ADEQUATE, MAINTAINED, PROPERLY USE, TEST STRIPS AVAILABLE
- ⚠️# 01B. FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION# 01B. FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
- ⚠️# 47. PERMITS AVAILABLE# 47. PERMITS AVAILABLE
- 🛠️gear not up to code# 35. EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS - APPROVED; INSTALLED; CLEAN; GOOD REPAIR, CAPACITY
- 🌡️hot/cold holding temps offcritical# 07. PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
- ❓food from an unapproved source# 06. ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
- ⚠️# 52. MULTIPLE MAJOR CRITICAL VIOLATIONS / INCREASED RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTH# 52. MULTIPLE MAJOR CRITICAL VIOLATIONS / INCREASED RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTH
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- 🚿plumbing acting up# 40. PLUMBING: PLUMBING IN GOOD REPAIR, PROPER BACKFLOW DEVICES
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted# 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR
When was La Tapatia Meat Market last inspected?
La Tapatia Meat Market has 2 inspections on record going back to November 9, 2023, averaging 86 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| March 12, 2025 | Grade B | 80 pts |
| November 9, 2023 | Grade A | 91 pts |
La Tapatia Meat Market vs El Sereno
El Sereno runs 90% clean across 62 tracked restaurants — 56 clean, 5 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 62 spots Cooked tracks in El Sereno, this one comes out cleaner than 2% of them.
Other spots in El Sereno
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 March 12, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.