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Local Kitchen The American Diner
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score93 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 16, 2026
- address235 N Sepulveda Blvd, Manhattan Beach 90266
Is Local Kitchen The American Diner clean?
Local Kitchen The American Diner is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on April 16, 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 Local Kitchen The American Diner?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 16, 2026, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDFOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USEEQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- ⚠️HANDS CLEAN AND PROPERLY WASHED; PROPER GLOVE USEcriticalHANDS CLEAN AND PROPERLY WASHED; PROPER GLOVE USE
When was Local Kitchen The American Diner last inspected?
Local Kitchen The American Diner has 1 inspection on record going back to April 16, 2026, averaging 93 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 16, 2026 | Grade A | 93 pts |
Local Kitchen The American Diner vs City Of Manhattan Beach
City Of Manhattan Beach runs 97% clean across 130 tracked restaurants — 126 clean, 4 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 130 spots Cooked tracks in City Of Manhattan Beach, this one comes out cleaner than 45% 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 April 16, 2026. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.