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Los Pineda Restaurant
- gradeGrade C
- inspection score75 pts
- critical violations2
- last inspectedMay 29, 2025
- address239 E 5Th St, Los Angeles 90037
Is Los Pineda Restaurant clean?
Los Pineda Restaurant is currently Grade C from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on May 29, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 2 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Los Pineda Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on May 29, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🌡️thermometers missing# 36. EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- ⚠️# 34. WAREWASHING FACILITIES: ADEQUATE, MAINTAINED, PROPERLY USE, TEST STRIPS AVAILABLE# 34. WAREWASHING FACILITIES: ADEQUATE, MAINTAINED, PROPERLY USE, TEST STRIPS AVAILABLE
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- ⚠️# 01B. FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION# 01B. FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
- ❓food from an unapproved source# 06. ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
- ⚠️# 21A. HOT WATER AVAILABLEcritical# 21A. HOT WATER AVAILABLE
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted# 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR
- 🐀rodents, insects, or animals insidecritical# 23. NO RODENTS, INSECTS, BIRDS, OR ANIMALS
- 🧫food prep surfaces dirty# 27. FOOD SEPARATED AND PROTECTED
- 📦food stored wrong# 30. FOOD PROPERLY STORED; FOOD STORAGE CONTAINERS IDENTIFIED
- ⚠️# 51. PERMIT SUSPENSION# 51. PERMIT SUSPENSION
When was Los Pineda Restaurant last inspected?
Los Pineda Restaurant has 1 inspection on record going back to May 29, 2025, averaging 75 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| May 29, 2025 | Grade C | 75 pts |
Los Pineda Restaurant vs Little Tokyo
Little Tokyo runs 95% clean across 905 tracked restaurants — 863 clean, 33 mid, 9 cooked.
Against the 905 spots Cooked tracks in Little Tokyo, 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 May 29, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.