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Pepe's Mexican Restaurant
- gradeGrade A
- inspection score92 pts
- critical violations1
- last inspectedJuly 8, 2025
- address2272 Honolulu Ave, Montrose 91020
Is Pepe's Mexican Restaurant clean?
Pepe's Mexican Restaurant is currently Grade A from LA County Department of Public Health, Environmental Health, from an inspection on July 8, 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 Pepe's Mexican Restaurant?
These are the violations recorded at the most recent inspection on July 8, 2025, in plain English, with the city's own wording underneath.
- 🧹floors, walls, or ceilings grimy# 44. FLOORS, WALLS AND CEILINGS: PROPERLY BUILT, MAINTAINED IN GOOD REPAIR AND CLEAN
- ⚠️# 34. WAREWASHING FACILITIES: ADEQUATE, MAINTAINED, PROPERLY USE, TEST STRIPS AVAILABLE# 34. WAREWASHING FACILITIES: ADEQUATE, MAINTAINED, PROPERLY USE, TEST STRIPS AVAILABLE
- 🏷️food improperly labeled# 37. ADEQUATE VENTILATION AND LIGHTING; DESIGNATED AREAS, USE
- 🧽surfaces not properly sanitizedcritical# 14. FOOD CONTACT SURFACES: CLEAN AND SANITIZED
- 🛠️equipment grimy or busted# 33. NONFOOD-CONTACT SURFACES CLEAN AND IN GOOD REPAIR
When was Pepe's Mexican Restaurant last inspected?
Pepe's Mexican Restaurant has 3 inspections on record going back to November 27, 2023, averaging 94 points.
| date | result | score |
|---|---|---|
| July 8, 2025 | Grade A | 92 pts |
| July 17, 2024 | Grade A | 94 pts |
| November 27, 2023 | Grade A | 97 pts |
Pepe's Mexican Restaurant vs La Crescenta-Montrose
La Crescenta-Montrose runs 99% clean across 196 tracked restaurants — 194 clean, 2 mid, 0 cooked.
Against the 196 spots Cooked tracks in La Crescenta-Montrose, this one comes out cleaner than 21% 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 8, 2025. Inspection results describe one moment in a kitchen's life, not a permanent verdict.