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Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score96 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 22, 2025
- address21540 Hawthorne Blvd # 401-B, Torrance 90503
Is Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que clean?
Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 22, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 22, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEANNON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITYEQUIPMENT/UTENSILS APPROVED: INSTALLED; GOOD REPAIR; CAPACITY
- ⚠️WIPING CLOTHS: PROPERLY USED AND STOREDWIPING CLOTHS: PROPERLY USED AND STORED
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEANFLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
When was Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que last inspected?
Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que has 2 inspections on record going back to July 23, 2024, averaging 95 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 22, 2025 | Grade A | 96 pts |
| July 23, 2024 | Grade A | 93 pts |
Lucille's Smokehouse Bar-B-Que vs City Of Torrance
City Of Torrance runs 95% clean across 487 tracked restaurants — 462 clean, 24 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 487 spots Cooked tracks in City Of Torrance, this one comes out cleaner than 67% 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 October 22, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.