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Pepe's Finest Mexican Food
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score95 pts
- critical violations0
- last inspectedOctober 14, 2025
- address11900 Carson St, Hawaiian Gardens 90716
Is Pepe's Finest Mexican Food clean?
Pepe's Finest Mexican Food is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on October 14, 2025. No critical violations were recorded at that visit. On Cooked's ladder that reads clean 😇.
What did inspectors find at Pepe's Finest Mexican Food?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on October 14, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- ⚠️EQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USEEQUIPMENT, UTENSILS AND LINENS: STORAGE AND USE
- ⚠️FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEANFLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED AND CLEAN
- ⚠️ADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USEADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USE
- ⚠️PLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGEPLUMBING: FIXTURES, BACKFLOW DEVICE, DRAINAGE
- ⚠️NON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEANNON-FOOD CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN
When was Pepe's Finest Mexican Food last inspected?
Pepe's Finest Mexican Food has 2 inspections on record going back to December 1, 2023, averaging 95 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| October 14, 2025 | Grade A | 95 pts |
| December 1, 2023 | Grade A | 94 pts |
Pepe's Finest Mexican Food vs City Of Hawaiian Gardens
City Of Hawaiian Gardens runs 98% clean across 116 tracked restaurants — 114 clean, 1 mid, 1 cooked.
Against the 116 spots Cooked tracks in City Of Hawaiian Gardens, this one comes out cleaner than 47% 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 October 14, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.