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Maria's Restaurante Y Pupuse
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score94 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedApril 15, 2025
- address3401 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles 90065
Is Maria's Restaurante Y Pupuse clean?
Maria's Restaurante Y Pupuse is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on April 15, 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 Maria's Restaurante Y Pupuse?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on April 15, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️# 42. TOILET FACILITIES: PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED, SUPPLIED, CLEANED# 42. TOILET FACILITIES: PROPERLY CONSTRUCTED, SUPPLIED, CLEANED
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- 🛠️gear not up to code# 35. EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS - APPROVED; INSTALLED; CLEAN; GOOD REPAIR, CAPACITY
When was Maria's Restaurante Y Pupuse last inspected?
Maria's Restaurante Y Pupuse has 2 inspections on record going back to December 11, 2023, averaging 94 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| April 15, 2025 | Grade A | 94 pts |
| December 11, 2023 | Grade A | 93 pts |
Maria's Restaurante Y Pupuse vs Lincoln Heights
Lincoln Heights runs 96% clean across 153 tracked restaurants — 147 clean, 5 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 153 spots Cooked tracks in Lincoln Heights, this one comes out cleaner than 30% 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 15, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.