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Maine Express
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score90 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedOctober 28, 2025
- address4138 Maine Ave # N-1, Baldwin Park 91706
Is Maine Express clean?
Maine Express is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 28, 2025. 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 Maine Express?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 28, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️WAREWASHING FACILITIES: INSTALLED, MAINTAINED; USED; TEST EQUIPMENTWAREWASHING FACILITIES: INSTALLED, MAINTAINED; USED; TEST EQUIPMENT
- ⚠️FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZEDcriticalFOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- ⚠️ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES; SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLEADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES; SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
- ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEANNON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
- ⚠️HOT AND COLD WATER AVAILABLEHOT AND COLD WATER AVAILABLE
When was Maine Express last inspected?
Maine Express has 3 inspections on record going back to July 6, 2023, averaging 91 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 28, 2025 | Grade A | 90 pts |
| August 16, 2024 | Grade A | 90 pts |
| July 6, 2023 | Grade A | 92 pts |
Maine Express vs City Of Baldwin Park
City Of Baldwin Park runs 95% clean across 271 tracked restaurants — 257 clean, 10 mid, 4 cooked.
Against the 271 spots Cooked tracks in City Of Baldwin Park, this one comes out cleaner than 5% of them.
Other spots in City Of Baldwin Park
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 28, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.