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
  THERMOMETERS PROVIDED AND ACCURATE
• ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
  FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
• ⚠️PLAN REVIEW
  PLAN REVIEW
• ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcritical
  FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
• ⚠️MULTIPLE MAJOR CRITICAL VIOLATIONS / INCREASED RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTH
  MULTIPLE MAJOR CRITICAL VIOLATIONS / INCREASED RISK TO PUBLIC HEALTH
• ⚠️DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
  DEMONSTRATION OF KNOWLEDGE
• ⚠️HOT AND COLD WATER AVAILABLEcritical
  HOT AND COLD WATER AVAILABLE
• ⚠️APPROVED THAWING METHODS USED, FROZEN FOOD
  APPROVED THAWING METHODS USED, FROZEN FOOD
• ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
  EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
• ⚠️ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES; SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
  ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES; SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE

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.

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.

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.