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Packing House Wine Merchants
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score92 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 17, 2025
- address540 W 1St St, Claremont 91711
Is Packing House Wine Merchants clean?
Packing House Wine Merchants is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on July 17, 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 Packing House Wine Merchants?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 17, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🍗undercooked food riskcritical# 09. PROPER COOLING METHODS
- 🚿plumbing acting up# 40. PLUMBING: PLUMBING IN GOOD REPAIR, PROPER BACKFLOW DEVICES
- 🌡️thermometers missing# 36. EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- 🛠️gear not up to code# 35. EQUIPMENT/UTENSILS - APPROVED; INSTALLED; CLEAN; GOOD REPAIR, CAPACITY
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- ⚠️# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD# 50. IMPOUNDMENT OF UNSANITARY EQUIPMENT OR FOOD
When was Packing House Wine Merchants last inspected?
Packing House Wine Merchants has 2 inspections on record going back to August 3, 2023, averaging 94 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 17, 2025 | Grade A | 92 pts |
| August 3, 2023 | Grade A | 96 pts |
Packing House Wine Merchants vs La Verne
La Verne runs 98% clean across 127 tracked restaurants — 124 clean, 3 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 127 spots Cooked tracks in La Verne, 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 July 17, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.