Cooked?
Liquor Barrel
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score91 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJanuary 23, 2026
- address4549 W Rosecrans Ave, Hawthorne 90250
Is Liquor Barrel clean?
Liquor Barrel is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on January 23, 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 Liquor Barrel?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on January 23, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEANFLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES; SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLEADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES; SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITYEQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
- ⚠️PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGEPLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
- ⚠️HOT AND COLD WATER AVAILABLEcriticalHOT AND COLD WATER AVAILABLE
When was Liquor Barrel last inspected?
Liquor Barrel has 2 inspections on record going back to September 20, 2024, averaging 93 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| January 23, 2026 | Grade A | 91 pts |
| September 20, 2024 | Grade A | 95 pts |
Liquor Barrel vs Wiseburn
Wiseburn runs 99% clean across 115 tracked restaurants — 114 clean, 1 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 115 spots Cooked tracks in Wiseburn, this one comes out cleaner than 3% of them.
Other spots in Wiseburn
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 January 23, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.