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Medrano's Mexican Restaurant
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score91 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedDecember 3, 2024
- address5037 W Avenue N # 19, Quartz Hill 93536
Is Medrano's Mexican Restaurant clean?
Medrano's Mexican Restaurant is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on December 3, 2024. 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 Medrano's Mexican Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on December 3, 2024, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitized# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted# 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR
- 🧫food prep surfaces dirty# 27. FOOD SEPARATED AND PROTECTED
- 🌡️hot/cold holding temps offcritical# 07. PROPER HOT AND COLD HOLDING TEMPERATURES
- 🛠️gear not up to code# 35. EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS - APPROVED; INSTALLED; CLEAN; GOOD REPAIR, CAPACITY
When was Medrano's Mexican Restaurant last inspected?
Medrano's Mexican Restaurant has 2 inspections on record going back to March 7, 2024, averaging 91 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| December 3, 2024 | Grade A | 91 pts |
| March 7, 2024 | Grade A | 90 pts |
Medrano's Mexican Restaurant vs Quartz Hill
Quartz Hill runs 98% clean across 65 tracked restaurants — 64 clean, 1 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 65 spots Cooked tracks in Quartz Hill, this one comes out cleaner than 11% 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 December 3, 2024. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.