Cooked?Lax-C Meat Department
- gradeGrade B
- inspection score80 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedNovember 6, 2025 →
- address1100 N Main St, Los Angeles 90012
Is Lax-C Meat Department clean?
Lax-C Meat Department is currently Grade B from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on November 6, 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 Lax-C Meat Department?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on November 6, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️THERMOMETERS PROVIDED AND ACCURATE
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️PLAN REVIEW
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcritical
- ⚠️APPROVED THAWING METHODS USED, FROZEN FOOD
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
- ⚠️ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES; SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
- ⚠️MULTIPLE MAJOR CRITICAL VIOLATIONS / INCREASED RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTH
- ⚠️DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
- ⚠️HOT AND COLD WATER AVAILABLEcritical
When was Lax-C Meat Department last inspected?
Lax-C Meat Department has 4 inspections on record going back to August 9, 2023, averaging 89 points.
November 6, 2025 B
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View full inspection →May 7, 2025 A
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View full inspection →October 16, 2023 A
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View full inspection →August 9, 2023 A
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View full inspection →Lax-C Meat Department vs Chinatown
Chinatown runs 91% clean across 230 tracked restaurants — 209 clean, 19 mid, 2 cooked.
Against the 230 spots Cooked tracks in Chinatown, this one comes out cleaner than 1% 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.
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Inspection findings and available history come from the authority’s published records. Cooked checks daily, but the authority publishes in batches, so a recent visit may not appear yet. Read the date on each result and check the official source for newer information.
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 November 6, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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