Cooked?Pepe's Cafe
- gradeGrade C
- inspection score64 pts
- critical violations5
- last inspectedSeptember 25, 2025 →
- address2414 E Florence Ave, Huntington Park 90255
Is Pepe's Cafe clean?
Pepe's Cafe is currently Grade C from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on September 25, 2025. Inspectors wrote up 5 critical violations — the kind most directly linked to foodborne illness. On Cooked's ladder that reads cooked 🪳.
What did inspectors find at Pepe's Cafe?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on September 25, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️# 34. WAREWASHING FACILITIES: ADEQUATE, MAINTAINED, PROPERLY USE, TEST STRIPS AVAILABLE
- ⚠️# 01B. FOOD SAFETY CERTIFICATION
- 🌡️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
- ⚠️# 21A. HOT WATER AVAILABLEcritical
- 🐀rodents, insects, or animals insidecritical# 23. NO RODENTS, INSECTS, BIRDS, OR ANIMALS
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted# 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR
- 🍗undercooked food riskcritical# 09. PROPER COOLING METHODS
- ⚠️# 51. PERMIT SUSPENSION
- ⚠️# 38. THERMOMETERS PROVIDED AND ACCURATE
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- ❓food from an unapproved source# 06. ADEQUATE HANDWASHING FACILITIES SUPPLIED & ACCESSIBLE
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
When was Pepe's Cafe last inspected?
Pepe's Cafe has 2 inspections on record going back to August 18, 2023, averaging 74 points.
September 25, 2025 C
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View full inspection →August 18, 2023 B
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View full inspection →Pepe's Cafe vs Walnut Park
Walnut Park runs 89% clean across 266 tracked restaurants — 238 clean, 22 mid, 6 cooked.
Against the 266 spots Cooked tracks in Walnut Park, this one comes out cleaner than 0% 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.
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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 September 25, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.
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